Confirming university students’ individual reading habit on academic text

Herman Resyadi* -  Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bone, Indonesia
Dea Serly Safitri -  Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bone, Indonesia
Darmawati Fitriansyah -  Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bone, Indonesia

DOI : 10.30863/ijretal.v1i1.1193

The main concern of this research was aimed at confirming the students’ individual reading
habit on academic text. It was navigated by online descriptive survey which involved 31
students of English Education program. The data were collected through online questionnaire
on WhatsApp Group Discussion by considering under the Covid19 situation and analyzed by
using SPSS. The result exposed (1) that the students have positive feeling on academic text,
(2) most of the students read academic text at least once a week, (3) Academic book is the
most types of academic text read by the students, (4) Busy with assignments becomes the
main reason why the students not reading academic text. This research confirmed that the
students have sufficient reading habit on academic text.

Keywords
Academic Text; Reading; Habit; University Students
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Submitted: 2021-01-22
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