Student Teachers Reading Habits and Preferences
Student Teachers Reading Habits and Preferences
Student Teachers Reading Habits and Preferences
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Abstract: This study investigates the reading habit and preferences of the
Student Teachers studying in their first year at the graduate school in Malang.
Although with the advance of technology, media and many factors influencing
reading habits and their preferences, the subjects of the study still have good
reading habit and positive attitude towards reading activities. To collect the
data, the researcher employs the questionnaire with 40 items adapted from
a similar research. The items were designed for evaluating reading habits,
general attitudes towards reading, and reading preferences of the students.
As a result of the study, it is shown that more than half of the students like
reading in leisure time and consider it as indispensable part of their lives.
In Indonesian Civil Aviation Institutes Ogeyik and Akyay’s (2009) notions that reading,
(henceforth ICAI) particularly pilot and ATC which is a long-term habit starting with the
students, the main focus of English instruction very early ages, is the prominent gateway to
is to enable them skilled and proficient in the knowledge room. Therefore, reading is
speaking and listening skills (ICAO descriptor a crucial process of individual development
in Emery & Roberts, 2008). It is due to the of capacities in understanding prevailing
fact that they shall be able to communicate information of the world.
authentically and spontaneously for flight. Have reading habit is not a simply stride for
However, reading is considered important since most readers. A habit is a product of learning
it provides comprehensible input for students and reading habits are activities of reading
in acquiring new language. Furthermore, the done routinely, consciously and intentionally
language they learned is exposed to English for (Iftanti, 2012). This view shows that readers are
aviation that inevitable related to English for required to rehearse their reading to become
specific purpose. Therefore, they are supposed a good habit. Therefore, to spur the students’
to introduce to new knowledge, context and reading habit, it is recommended to encourage
specific vocabulary that might impede them a desire to read and the texts should be varied
to comprehend the text and communication and based on the purposes for which the
as well. Reading plays an important role in students want to read for instances, books,
enriching and enlarging readers’ knowledge magazines, newspapers, fiction, non-fiction,
and insights in certain fields with no matters texts that inform, texts that entertain, general,
readers read particular texts in their native specialized, light, or serious (Tamrackitkun,
language (L1) or second/foreign language. In 2010). Thus, by doing that way the students
this sense, reading can become effective ways are triggered to have reading habits.
for people to be knowledgeable. Thus, reading Healthy reading habits are essential for younger
is generally viewed as a way of reaching new generations particularly students to compete
information and knowledge. It is line with in the global marketplaces of the future. Not