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Reading Environment and Reading Interests of Public Sector Secondary School Students

Abstract

    This study explored the reading environment, reading interests and available reading facilities for Public Sector students in Secondary Schools. A Structured questionnaire and a reading interest inventory were used as survey instruments on 9th and 10th class (N= 3600) students in Southern Punjab, Pakistan. The findings of the study highlighted that parents, friends, teachers, and examinations influence the reading interests of students positively. Parents and teachers both can encourage nourishing the minds of adolescence towards reading. Significantly a greater number of students viewed their teachers and examinations to be playing a motivational role for reading. The majority of the students asserted that magazines and newspapers were available at their schools and homes as the reading facility. Furthermore, the findings of the study revealed that the majority of the students appeared to be interested in reading magazines

    Reading environment, Reading facilities, Reading interest

    (1) Shahla Anjum
    Ph.D. Scholar,Department of Education, The Islamia University ofBahawalpur Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Irshad Hussain
    Associate Professor,Department of Educational Training,The IslamiaUniversity of Bahawalpur Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Shahida Sajjad,
    Former Dean,Faculty of Education, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
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