CRITICAL READING 10

CRITICAL READING OF READING HABITS AMONG STUDENTS AND ITS EFFECT ON

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF STUDENTS OF

Micheal Owusu-Acheaw

Koforidua Polytechnic, Koforidua, Ghana

Agatha Gifty Larson

University of Education, Winneba, Ghana

University Of Nebraska – Lincoln 2014

Reading habit is  an activity that executed simultanously. It attained to the consistency work in understanding the massage of the text. Reading implicated high academic achievement of the students. It not only has effect to the academic achievement but also promote students to reach excel life (Bashir and Mattoo, 2012).

According to Acheaw and Larson reseach, reading habit had influence of academic performance, and there was a relationship between them.  The study was con

ducted in in Koforidua Polytechnic situated in the Eastern Region of Ghana. They used quantitative study design and questionnaire instrument to collect the data.  The finding revealed that majority of the student argue that reading was important. Their reading material focused on the subject they were learning. This aimed to passed examination with high score, and then it showed good result.

            From the research above, it can be infered that focusing reading habit toward particular subject will help the students have good comprehension about their academic subject. their academic performance also lead the possitive impact. Thus, it required the teacher to motivate the student to keep on reading not only the academic material but also supported material. It is important because to be advanced learner, the student should have good reading comprehension about that. Besides that, we as the students should minimize the laziness then produce active reading to encourage higher achievement.