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This study of 127 French immersion students examines how much reading they did for pleasure in both French and English and what factors influenced those amounts. More than two-thirds never read at all in French for pleasure outside school. Time spent reading books voluntarily in French was not affected by gender, reading achievement in French, or attitude towards reading in French. On the other hand, students benefitted from some methods used by the French teacher to stimulate reading. The students' reading interests were also investigated. Recommendations to stimulate pleasure reading in the children's second language are formulated.
Romney et al. (Sat,) studied this question.