Indonesian English Department Students’ Reading Habits and Attitude Toward Literature in English

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200306.063How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading habits, reading attitude, literature in English, literature in language class, instructional model

Abstract

This study reports the results of a survey on the reading habits of English Department Students at Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia, and their attitude towards literature in English. Reading Habit questionnaire developed by Pandian (1997) and an adaptation of Students’ Attitude and Perception towards literature in English questionnaire developed by Tina Abdullah (2007) were employed. Both instruments were translated to Indonesian before being distributed to the respondents. The total number of respondents involved in this study was 125 comprising of 79 third year students and 46 fourth year students. These students were chosen as respondents because they had taken more than two compulsory literature subjects. First year students and second year students were not included because the former had not taken any compulsory literature subjects, while the latter had not completed their first compulsory literature subjects yet. A demography survey was also conducted to see their perception on their English proficiency and motivation to choose English as their major. Results showed that (i) the majority of the students believed that their English falls under the category of good and very good; (ii) students enrolled to English Department to learn English and/or to learn more about the English language; (iii) they have poor reading habits; (iv) they enjoy other technology related activities more compared to reading; (v) they believed that literature subjects are instrumental in improving their English; (vi) half of the respondents have negative attitude towards poetry in English; (vii) attitude towards longer literature work like novel and drama varied. Finally, pedagogical implications related to the instructional model to teach literature in English is discussed.

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© 2020, 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  - Delvi Wahyuni
AU  - Witri Oktavia
AU  - Leni Marlina
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/11
TI  - Indonesian English Department Students’ Reading Habits and Attitude Toward Literature in English
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 375
EP  - 381
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200306.063
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200306.063
ID  - Wahyuni2020
ER  -