Comic Book Reading, Reading Enjoyment, and Pleasure Reading among Middle Class and Chapter 1 Middle School Students.
Abstract
Contrary to the view of some writers (Wertham, 1954), research shows that comic book readings does not replace other kinds of reading. Comic book readers, in gerneral, read as much as non-comic book readers (Witty, 1941; Heisler, 1947; Bailyn, 1959; Swain, 1978) and the results of one study suggest they read more (Blakely, 1958). Krashen (1993) suggests that comic book reading and other kinds of light reading may serve as an important bridge from everyday conversational language to what Cummins (1991) terms academic language. This view is supported by studies showing that comic book texts contain more rare words than ordinary conversation does (Hayes and Ahrens, 1988), as well as case histories of readers who credit comic books with providing them with the linguistic basis for reading more difficult texts (e.g. Mathabane, 1986).
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Joanne Ujiie, Stephen D. Krashen (1996). Comic Book Reading, Reading Enjoyment, and Pleasure Reading among Middle Class and Chapter 1 Middle School Students.. Reading improvement.
@article{joanne1996comic,
title = {Comic Book Reading, Reading Enjoyment, and Pleasure Reading among Middle Class and Chapter 1 Middle School Students.},
author = {Ujiie, Joanne and Krashen, Stephen D.},
year = {1996},
journal = {Reading improvement}
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