Analysis of Students’ Interest in Reading

DOI

10.2991/icss-19.2019.205How to use a DOI?

Keywords

interest; reading; analysis.

Abstract

This research was intended to find out interest in reading of English Education Department of Musamus University. This research was conducted in January 2019 at Musamus University in the Department of English Language Education. The subjects in this study were all fourth semester students at the English Language Education Department who took Reading Four courses. There were 20 students participating in this study. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. Data collection is done by questionnaire; and interview. The questionnaire results are explained qualitatively. Data from the interview results are used to complete the data from the questionnaire. The results of the analysis of this study have found that students’ interest in reading is very lack. Factors that cause a lack of the students’ interest in reading are factors from within themselves. The factor from inner argue is 62% social factors 52%; and emotional factors 51%. From the results obtained the most dominant factor that caused a low of students interest in reading was a factor from inner themselves. The low of interest in reading among students are not having a great interest in reading; feeling bored when reading languages that are too rigid; not interested in reading assignments; preferring to have fun rather than reading book.

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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  - Marni Bawawa
AU  - Sri Winarsih
AU  - Rezky Uspayanti
AU  - Margaretha Naharawarin
AU  - Ranta Butarbutar
AU  - Natalia Manuhutu
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Analysis of Students’ Interest in Reading
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science 2019 (ICSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 202
EP  - 205
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icss-19.2019.205
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