A Profile of Novice English Teachers' Reading Habits

Riski Aginia Hafizha, Fiftinova, Hariswan Putra Jaya

2018

Abstract

A new challenge on growing reading habit to the students has been suggested to the teachers vigorously. Reading habits of students will be reflected from the teachers themselves as they are the front liners in education who encourage and promote reading habits. This study was aimed to find out the reading habit of English novice teachers and to find out the factors influencing their reading habits. The participants of this study was 12 selected novice teachers who graduated from English education study program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Sriwijaya University. They teach in formal and informal schools in Palembang and were selected after they fulfilled the preliminary survey before the study conducted. The results of the questionnaire and interview given to the respondents revealed that the reading habit of novice teachers graduated from English Education Study Program of FKIP Sriwijaya University was still considered as ‘lukewarm’. Lastly, the factors influencing the reading habits of the novice teachers were goals, beliefs, interests, and motivation

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Aginia Hafizha R., Fiftinova. and Putra Jaya H. (2018). A Profile of Novice English Teachers' Reading Habits. In Proceedings of the 3rd Sriwijaya University International Conference on Learning and Education - Volume 1: SULE-IC; ISBN 978-989-758-575-3, SciTePress, pages 19-24. DOI: 10.5220/0009993800002499

in Bibtex Style

@conference{sule-ic18,
author={Riski Aginia Hafizha and Fiftinova and Hariswan Putra Jaya},
title={A Profile of Novice English Teachers' Reading Habits},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd Sriwijaya University International Conference on Learning and Education - Volume 1: SULE-IC},
year={2018},
pages={19-24},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009993800002499},
isbn={978-989-758-575-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd Sriwijaya University International Conference on Learning and Education - Volume 1: SULE-IC
TI - A Profile of Novice English Teachers' Reading Habits
SN - 978-989-758-575-3
AU - Aginia Hafizha R.
AU - Fiftinova.
AU - Putra Jaya H.
PY - 2018
SP - 19
EP - 24
DO - 10.5220/0009993800002499
PB - SciTePress