Exploring Korean Adolescents' Reading Attitudes Model
Choi, Sook-Ki
Korea National University of Education
Korean Language Education Research Vol. 49 No. 1 pp.733-765 (2014)
Abstract
Choi, Sook-ki The purpose of this research is to explore the reading attitudes mod- el of korean middle school and high school students using survey devel- oped by McKenna et al.(2012). Totally 2,942 students chosen according to convenience sampling method participated in the survey. In accordance with the purpose of the study, confirmatory factor analysis, multigroup CFA and MANOVA were employed in the study. According to results of the study; (1) Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted on the 21 items for a four-factor; academic digital, recreational digital, academic print, and recreational print The reading attitudes model revealed a good- ness fit to the data (χ 2 113 = 5,169.30, p < 0.001, CFI = 0.87, TLI = 0.85, RM- SEA = 0.08). (2) The high coefficient(r =0.741) between academic digital and academic print may show that where reading for academic purposes is concerned, text type or medium makes little difference to korean ado- lescents. But the weak relationships between recreational digital and the other three factors was revealed. (3) The results of MANOVA to examine whether an effect for gender, grade, and grade by gender existed for four attitude factors, it was seen that the attitudes of high school students were more positive than those of middle school students; the attitudes of fe- males were more positive than those of males.
Keywords
Korean adolescents readerreading attitudedigital textprint textreading purposegenderschool levelCFAMANOVA
