Annamalai, Subashini & Muniandy, Balakrishnan. (2013).

Reading Habit and Attitude

among Malaysian Polytechnic Students. International Online Journal of Educational
Sciences. 2013. 32-41. This paper reports the results of a study on the reading
habit and attitude of the students in a Malaysian Polytechnic. A survey
questionnaire adapted from Smith's (1991) Adult Survey of Reading Attitude (ASRA)
and Pandian's (1997) Reading Habit questionnaire was used for this study. The
questionnaire was distributed to 119 polytechnic students from Engineering and
Business department in the selected Polytechnic. Results of the study revealed
that; (i) the polytechnics students have low interest in reading; (ii) students do
not enjoy reading as much as they enjoy doing other technology related activities.
Finally, the paper will discuss the implications of the findings in terms of
instructional material development within reading context.