The Portrait of Reading Habit and Interest of Tangerang City’s Community

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.56How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading habit, reading interest, newspaper, promotion, Tangerang City

Abstract

Reading is an important activity in improving people's life quality, and therefore it needs to grow and breed into a habit. This descriptive study investigated reading habit and interest of Tangerang City community which spread throughout 13 subdistricts. To collect the data, the study utilized a questionnaire distributed to 350 target respondents. The study revealed that 40% of the people like to spend their leisure time for reading activities. They preferred reading newspapers articles about religious affairs to other topics. To get their reading need, they often bought religious books from the bookstore. In addition, they also acknowledged that the family played an important role in providing the conducive environment that contributed the growth and development of reading habits. Therefore, it can be concluded the people’s reading habit is still in the low category. There must be any efforts from the family and government to help them increase their reading habit and interest so that they can be well informed.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ulpah Andayani
AU  - Siti Maryam
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - The Portrait of Reading Habit and Interest of Tangerang City’s Community
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Internasional Conference on Culture and Language in Southeast Asia (ICCLAS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 219
EP  - 221
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icclas-18.2019.56
DO  - 10.2991/icclas-18.2019.56
ID  - Andayani2019/02
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