An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students
Reading can play a vital role in personality development. No one can neglect its importance. But recent trendsshow that students’ priorities are changing overtime, and they are interested more in social media, entertainment, and reading novels. The purpose of reading is specific to them. Reading can...
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author | Sajid, Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Hafizoah, Kassim Al Fraidan, Abdullah Hasan, Ghassan Adnan Iqbal, Zafar Aljarrah, Khaled Al Anazi, Nawaf |
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description | Reading can play a vital role in personality development. No one can neglect its importance. But recent trendsshow that students’ priorities are changing overtime, and they are interested more in social media, entertainment, and reading novels. The purpose of reading is specific to them. Reading can make students optimistic and ambitious about their dreams.It is crucial to learn the easy and effective ways of reading at the university level because university level study is different from school and college level.University M.Phil. level requiresvariousforms and patternsof reading to achieve excellent grades. This study attempts to analyze the reading habit of students at a leading public university in Multan city. The purpose of the study is to measure the reading habits of M.Phil.Level students by percentage in the Economics department. It is a case study in which a questionnaire wasapplied to collect data from the Economics Department of Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan. A sample size of 30 respondentsat M.Phil. level was used to collect the data from the Economics Department of the University.The findings of the study showedpoor reading habitsamong the students while their interest was high towards social media, using the internet, and other activities. They like to read novels and other reading stuff instead of reading course books. |
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spelling | UMPir304262021-01-04T08:26:01Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30426/ An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students Sajid, Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Hafizoah, Kassim Al Fraidan, Abdullah Hasan, Ghassan Adnan Iqbal, Zafar Aljarrah, Khaled Al Anazi, Nawaf PE English Reading can play a vital role in personality development. No one can neglect its importance. But recent trendsshow that students’ priorities are changing overtime, and they are interested more in social media, entertainment, and reading novels. The purpose of reading is specific to them. Reading can make students optimistic and ambitious about their dreams.It is crucial to learn the easy and effective ways of reading at the university level because university level study is different from school and college level.University M.Phil. level requiresvariousforms and patternsof reading to achieve excellent grades. This study attempts to analyze the reading habit of students at a leading public university in Multan city. The purpose of the study is to measure the reading habits of M.Phil.Level students by percentage in the Economics department. It is a case study in which a questionnaire wasapplied to collect data from the Economics Department of Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan. A sample size of 30 respondentsat M.Phil. level was used to collect the data from the Economics Department of the University.The findings of the study showedpoor reading habitsamong the students while their interest was high towards social media, using the internet, and other activities. They like to read novels and other reading stuff instead of reading course books. PalArch Foundation 2020 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30426/1/An%20Assessment%20of%20Text%20Reading%20Habits.pdf Sajid, Muhammad Khalid Mehmood and Hafizoah, Kassim and Al Fraidan, Abdullah and Hasan, Ghassan Adnan and Iqbal, Zafar and Aljarrah, Khaled and Al Anazi, Nawaf (2020) An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 17 (9). pp. 2438-2451. ISSN 1567-214X. (Published) https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/4220 |
spellingShingle | PE English Sajid, Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Hafizoah, Kassim Al Fraidan, Abdullah Hasan, Ghassan Adnan Iqbal, Zafar Aljarrah, Khaled Al Anazi, Nawaf An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students |
title | An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students |
title_full | An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students |
title_fullStr | An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students |
title_full_unstemmed | An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students |
title_short | An Assessment of Text Reading Habits of Pakistani M.Phil. Level Students |
title_sort | assessment of text reading habits of pakistani m phil level students |
topic | PE English |
url | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30426/1/An%20Assessment%20of%20Text%20Reading%20Habits.pdf |
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