The Portrait of Reading Habit among Junior High School Students

DOI

10.2991/icollite-18.2019.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reading; reading habit; attitude toward reading

Abstract

This study was aimed to investigate reading habit among junior high school students using a case study design involving ten students at one of junior high school in West Bandung Regency as participants. The data collections were obtained from classroom observation, questionnaire, interview, and document analysis. This study revealed that the students had low reading habit; they preferred watching TV and surfing the internet than reading for their leisure time. Most of them read-only for 1-2 hours per day. In term of reading material preference, most of students preferred fiction books written in Indonesian language. In addition, the students faced difficulties when engaged in reading in English due to their anxiety regarding their general proficiency needed to decode and comprehend the texts. The study invites teachers, school authorities, and family members to team up to improve students’ reading habit.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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  - Ninda Chairanissa
AU  - Yanty Wirza
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - The Portrait of Reading Habit among Junior High School Students
BT  - Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 206
EP  - 210
SN  - 2352-5398
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