Ingebjørg Tonne|Joron Pihl
Literacy education, reading engagement, and library use in multilingual classes
OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University|OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
topic paper literacy education reading engagement multilingual classes facilitates reading engagement language instruction multilingual classes paper analyze reading engagement literaturebased literacy program norway 20072011 design research development project teachers researchers librarians collaborated within literacy education present pedagogical interventions within project analyze subsequent reading engagement among students based survey survey documented overwhelming majority students engaged readers two years project measured students amount frequency voluntary reading attitudes towards reading library use findings indicate reading engagement language instruction among first secondlanguage learners facilitated literaturebased literacy education nonsegregated educational provisions use library resources study shows literaturebased literacy education may reduce possible negative effects low socioeconomic status linguistic minority background reading engagement language instruction requires literacy education gives students extensive access books voluntary reading fiction facts sharing literacy events library use