A Survey on English Education Department Students’ Online Reading Interest
Abstract
Although there have been many studies investigated reading interest in
higher education context, there still lack of research on online reading interest that
are correlated with the characteristic of generation z, who in fact often use internet
and social media. The objective of the study is to investigate English Education
students’ online reading interest. A total of 149 students from the English Education
Department participated in this study. The questionnaire contains 26 questions and
includes 7 aspects (i.e. enjoyment-online, enjoyment-social media, competence-
online, confidence-online, value-online, flow-online, and belongings- social
media). The data were then analyzed by using SPSS and Spread Sheets. The results
indicated positive feedback from English Education students. The overall result
revealed that English Education students have a high interest in reading online.
Students indicated high positive responses on three aspects, namely, enjoyment-
social media, value-online, and belongings-social media. Meanwhile the other four
aspects received average positive responses from the students. Therefore, this study
is expected to help students utilize the internet and social media for lecture
purposes, especially in reading courses and lecturers.