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Reflecting on EFL Secondary Students’ Reading Habits and Perceptions of Young Adult Literature to Promote Reading for Pleasure and Global Citizenship Education

Fabiana Fazzi    Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia    

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abstract

One of the challenges faced by language teachers is promoting students’ reading for pleasure while also helping them confront world issues. Introducing Young Adult Literature in the EFL classroom can be of great help in this sense. However, it is not easy to select the most appropriate texts and topics, as teenage students’ reading preferences are still not well known. Against this background, we administered an online questionnaire to Austrian, Italian, and Hungarian students to explore their reading preferences and habits. In this article, we report the results of this questionnaire and draw some pedagogical implications.

Published
July 26, 2023
Submitted
Jan. 13, 2023
Language
EN

Keywords: EFL • Young Adult Literature • Students’ reading habits and preferences • Print and digital literacies • Global issues

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2023/02/003

Copyright: © 2023 Fabiana Fazzi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.