An Analysis Of Reading Habits Of English Language Edication Students at Universitas Islam Riau

Sari, Yustia Indah (2021) An Analysis Of Reading Habits Of English Language Edication Students at Universitas Islam Riau. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

Reading habits are activities that help you better understand your own experiences and can be an exciting journey to self-discovery. This research aims to describe the reading habits fifth year students’ of English Language Education at Universitas Islam Riau. This research used quantitative approach. The population of this study was the fifth semester students of English Department at Universitas Islam Riau, n=(147) while the sample was whole sampling technique selected that of 110 participants. The data were collected from the questionnaire that distributed online through Google form. The questionnaire adapted from Aliye Erdem (2015). The results showed that 89% of the participants’ who are read social media posting for the most preferred items for reading. While, there are 66% of the participants who read a book genres entertainment humor and there are 92.7% of the participants browsing from internet for their means of obtaining books for reading. As for status of enjoying reading books/ periodicals, 52.7% of the participants considered partially. In term of time of last book purchase, 67.3% of the participants choose can’t remember and 41.8% of the participants choose less frequently for book reading frequency. Then, majority of the participants with 71.8% of them are feel the purpose of reading is being informed. Meanwhile, 66.4% of the participants feel improved for status of change in reading habits after coming to university. In addition, majority of the participants with 57.3% of them are often spending time on the computer/ internet for the reasons for not being able to spare enough time for reading.

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