POINT II: STUDENT’S ATTITUDES ANALYSIS Attitudes toward reading are defined as an individual’s feeling about reading. It causes learners to adopt or avoid a reading situation (Alexander & Filler, 1976). Attitude and interest toward reading can be related to feeling and their willingness to read. Reading attitude is defined by McKenna, Kear and Ellsworth (1996) as a system of feelings related to reading which causes the learner to approach or avoid a reading situation. Reading is generally accepted as a way of acquiring new information and new knowledge. We began by first reviewing the articles that need to be compared, between Malaysia and Vietnam readers. The first, a student’s attitude is based on enjoyment in reading. Actually, most countries have a reaction of enjoyment while reading. Based on Malaysia, findings shown that 63% agreed that they enjoy reading. However, there were students (8%) who disagreed about enjoying reading. The findings also showed that the highest percentages (42%) of the respondents agreed that they read daily or almost every day. In Vietnam however, the country’s level of enjoyment in reading, (33%) of the respondents claimed that they enjoy the activity very much, followed by (29%) of those that found reading enjoyable, (20%) share a fair relationship with it. Only a small amount of participants show little …show more content…
For example, although the students from both genders agree strongly that “reading is a skill for life” and “reading is important”, females were more likely to strongly agree with these two statements. In addition, the students as a whole agreed that they enjoyed visiting libraries. However, their library habits did not support the current findings, which concluded that the majority of participants visited a library at most once or twice a
On October 10th, 2017 at Springhurst Elementary School, I conducted a “Reading Interest Survey” and the “Elementary Reading Attitude Survey.” These surveys were conducted on a 1st grade student, Jax, to determine what his feelings are towards reading in different settings, what genres he prefers to read, and interests. It was found that Jax doesn’t mind reading, but prefers a few different topics. This was evident through his raw score of 30 on recreational reading, and a raw score of 31 on academic reading.
Reading is on the decline and our reading skills are declining right along with the amount of reading we do. This is happening right across the board through both genders, all age groups and education levels, people are busy and they just do not have time to read books that they are not required to read for school or work. There are serious consequences to this neglect of reading that will continue to worsen if ignored. We need to take notice of what is happening to our culture and stop this situation from continuing, we must act to correct these issues that we are faced with. These things are discussed in the essay “Staying Awake’’ by Ursula K. Le Guin who uses the NEA essays “To Read or Not to Read’’ and “Reading at Risk’’ to support her argument that there is a decline in the amount of time that we are spending on reading and our ability to understand what it is that we are reading.
The type of reading that is on the decline, is that which requires thought, the assimilation and accommodation of ideas, and effort—close reading. This form of reading involves the careful, sustained interpretation of literary text that comes from observing a pieces minute detail. In accordance with the definition of reading provided by the Princeton dictionary, “the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message”, the methods used other than closed reading are not truly reading. Many have argued that the creation of new technology has actually enabled more people to read, but when compared with reading’s definition, this is not true. Reading in not mindlessly skimming articles and not knowing what they mean afterwards, but being able to comprehend the material that one has read, including its many facets.
Each year as I grow old, I tend to discover and learn new things about myself as a person as well as a reader, writer and a student as a whole. My educational journey so far has been pretty interesting and full of surprises. Back in Bangladesh where I studied until high school, my interest for learning, reading or writing was so very different compared to how it has become over the years. I could relate those learning days to Richard Rodriquez’s essay “The lonely Good Company of Books”. In the essay the author says, “Friends? Reading was, at best, only a chore.”(Rodriguez, page 294). During those days I sure did feel like reading was a chore for me and how I was unable to focus and I could never understand what all those jumbled up words ever meant. It was quite a struggle for me in class when the teachers used to assign us reading homework. I felt like reading a book was more difficult or painful than trying to move a mountain. Just like how moving a mountain is impossible, trying to find an interest in reading was
Reading has been going through a steady according to the article “Why Literature Matters”. Dana Gioia believes that the decline of reading in America will have a negative effect on society. He believes that there are many people that contributes to the decline of reading but mainly in the young adults ages 18-24. Dana also believes that with the steady decline of reading we can see a major change in our nation including, being less informed,active, and having the ability to have an independent mind. Dana Gioia states that “The most worrisome finding in the 2002 study [Survey of Public Participation in the Arts],however, is the declining percentage of Americans, especially young adults, reading literature.”
Donald M. Murray, in this article entitled “Reading as a Reader” is talking about how reading is an unique, an essential, and a necessary aptitude for human beings in their society. While illustrating his point of view, the author stresses on the idea that our attitudes towards reading is directly linked to the systematic approaches we have while facing a article or a book. In this article, he said that: “If we approach a text believing that we are not readers, or that we can’t read, that attitude may make it more difficult for us to understand the challenging text.”(Murray, 2). Throughout those words, Murray emphasizes that we should consider the process of reading as a learning process, and as a way of deepening the capacity we have as readers. We should have an open-mind while engaging with a reading, and understand that it may always not be our fault if it comes that the text we are reading is difficult. In clear, it is all part of the process of improving ourselves. Then, Murray, in his well structured writing, portrays differents types of reading and also gives us some tips on how to approach them.
Reading is an essential element in our everyday lives. What was the first thing that you learned in school? It was the ability to read. Exercising that ability by reading voluntarily keeps our minds active when we’re out of school. It is a supplement to our minds. The more you read, the more you know!
Ever since I was a child, I've never liked reading. Every time I was told to read, I would just sleep or do something else instead. In "A Love Affair with Books" by Bernadete Piassa tells a story about her passion for reading books. Piassa demonstrates how reading books has influenced her life. Reading her story has given me a different perspective on books. It has showed me that not only are they words written on paper, they are also feelings and expressions.
Many people do not realize the benefits that reading a book entails; otherwise you would see more people racing to pick up their dusty old books as if it were one of Dr. Oz’s new miracle drugs. Instead people choose not to read because they are either impatient or they do not have the spare time available to allocate towards reading. The problem with people choosing not to read however, is that it’s more of the young population that’s not reading. In a study including more than “40 universities, foundations, business groups, and government agencies since 2004, found that almost half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 never read books for pleasure” (Boston.com 5).
On the other hand, in university, I was required to read, a lot, in a variety of courses. However, I was never told the benefits of reading, how much of an impact it had on the way I wrote, viewed the world, analyzed and critic. Reading is simply something one must do. If you enjoy it, great, it’ll be an easy task for you. If you do not, you still have to do it, it is not at a higher academic level that professors take the time to change the students from “non-readers to readers”. I believe that a shift from viewing reading as a task to a pleasure has a very slim chance of happening both in high school and university. Most of the people I am surrounded by are trying to have a 4.0 GPA while taking very challenging classes, applying for veterinary, dental and medical schools, working in laboratories, volunteering and trying to get a perfect score on the MCAT or GRE. There is no time for these individuals to take pleasure in reading and view it as a learning experience. Once their academic career has ended around age thirty, these new pediatricians, orthodontists, veterinarians have had their faces in books for decades. Predictably, most don’t want to read anything anymore. Those who do were the same people who at age ten would read in secret with a flashlight at one in the morning. This is
reading will always be all around us. It is apart of my everyday life. If had to choose, reading as a child is a comfortable memory. Although reading now is not all that exciting, doesn't mean I can’t get anything out of it. Reading is the plug to get your brain going. This semester I want to read Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Hopefully, this novel will interest me
While I believe every child is a reader, I do not believe every child will be enthralled with reading all the time. All students have the capability to read and enjoy reading, but just like any other hobby, interest will vary from student to student. The students in my classroom will be encouraged in their reading, be provided with choice, taught how books can take you into another world but, my students will not be forced to read. This paper will illustrate my philosophy of reading through the theories I relate to, the way I want to implement reading and writing curriculum, and the methods I will use motivate my students to read and help them become literate.
Reading was never something I fussed about growing up. As a child, I loved genres of realistic fiction. I was hooked on The New Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley, Goosebumps, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Judy Moody, and especially, Zoobooks and Highlights magazines. My mother was always ready to help build my reading and writing skills. She took me to the library constantly to feed my passion for books and knowledge. I loved exploring the shelfs, organizing the books, and filling up my library cart. I tried keeping a diary in elementary school to keep track of my outings with my parents and grandparents to museums, zoos, movies, and libraries. This flash of writing enthusiasm was spun from books I read in the 4th and 5th grade that were
Nowadays, many people think reading is not necessary, since there are so many sources of information and types of entertainment, such as TV, cinema and the Internet. I believe they are wrong because reading is very beneficial in many ways.
Many students have a hard time when it comes to reading. There are many reading inventions that can help students out. Reading inventions are strategies that help students who are having trouble reading. The interventions are techniques that can be used to assist in one on ones with students or working in small groups to help students become a better reader. Hannah is a student who seems to be struggling with many independent reading assignments. There can be many reasons that Hannah is struggling with the independent reading assignments. One of the reasons that Hannah can be struggling with is reading comprehension while she is reading on her on. Reading comprehension is when students are able to read something, they are able to process it and they are able to understand what the text is saying. According to article Evidence-based early reading practices within a response to intervention system, it was mentioned that research strategies that can use to help reading comprehension can include of activating the student’s background knowledge of the text, the teacher can have questions that the student answer while reading the text, having students draw conclusions from the text, having