Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)

The Portrait of Reading Habit among Junior High School Students

Authors
Ninda Chairanissa, Yanty Wirza
Corresponding Author
Yanty Wirza
Available Online March 2019.
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.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-691-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.45How to use a DOI?
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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