CRITICAL READING 7

 

CRITICAL READING OF READING HABITS AND PREFERENCES OF EFL POST GRADUATES:

A CASE STUDY

Noorizah Mohd. Noor

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Published by Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics,

Vol. I No. 1 (July 2011)

                Nowadays, student centered becomes popular strategy in English Language Teaching (ELT). Teachers prefer to be a guider than a teacher in the learning process. In the learning process, reading is very important part in getting information and construct knowledge. Furthermore to get good comprehension about the knowledge, they have to read many sources in many times. It means that they should have a good reading habit.

                There are many studies about reading habit and it still becomes happening issue right now. Noor is one of the researchers who conduct the research in this field. She focuses on the higher education such as university level (post graduate student). The purpose of her study is to figure out the student’s reading habit and the preference.  The finding shows that the students have different of reading material. The major preference they read is reading online material. This is in line with previous studies (Shen, 2006, Hagood, 2003) that indicated students’ primary preference for reading online materials. Furthermore, in reasoning why they choose that type, they have different view point. It can be categories into two; pleasure and study. 

                This study can be applied in our class in Indonesia. We can also conduct this study in the university level. I think there is no big obstacle if we do this study because reading is skill that can be measured without using complicated tool. We can use questionnaire instrument to collect the data. Thus, we can figure out what preference they read most and what reason they give. Is there any different finding of still the same? Furthermore, we can enlarge the study not only to figure out the preference and the reason but also to examine the effect of the preference in their achievement.