Engaged Reading: A Multilevel Approach to Considering Sociocultural Factors With Diverse Learners

摘要

This report examines previous theory and research on motivation in the area of reading (reading engagement) from a sociocultural perspective. It describes a study that examined the issue of reading engagement with eighteen third-grade Spanish-speaking children and families in an impoverished Southern California inner-city school specifically, the relationship between sociocultural factors (organizational features of the classroom and after school program and empirically assessed features of families daily living routines) and student reading engagement. Case studies also were used to illustrate how reading motivation is embedded in daily practices and how accounts of reading motivation that are focused strictly on the individual in isolation may miss the complexity of factors that are integral aspects of students reading and later literacy development. In this paper, we present data focusing on sociocultural factors in reading engagement from a larger study of Latino immigrant students in an urban, central city location.