Students’ interest on reading printed text and electronic text in the third year of English Department State Institute for Islamic Studies Padangsidimpuan year 2021/2022 (comparative study)

Annisa, Siti Nur (2023) Students’ interest on reading printed text and electronic text in the third year of English Department State Institute for Islamic Studies Padangsidimpuan year 2021/2022 (comparative study). Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Reading has been the main focus of study activity to grasp more knowledge and the key success in learning. The objective of this study is to compare students’ Interest on Reading Printed text and reading electronic text. This research was focused about the undergraduate students’ Interest on Reading Printed text and electronic text during learning activities at State Islamic University Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan. The purpose of this research was to know students’ Interest on Reading Printed text and electronic text, and to know the reasons for the students’ Interest on Reading Printed text and electronic text in the third year of English Department in State Islamic University Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan. The aim of this research is to look for students’ text format interest, and the cause of their interest over each one of those formats. The method used in this research was quantitative research and used the comparative design. This study used questionnaire as adapted by Abulouma and researcher own creation, and the hypotheses and the data were calculated using SPSS software and Cronbach’s Alpha to test the validity and reliability. Researcher analyzes the data using means and standard deviation as the main formula, then interpret the results to get the whole result of the research. The results of the research revealed in terms of students’ attitude toward reading and interest in text format: 90% of the students like reading and 63% of the students spend more than one hour for reading academic text. In terms of students’ interest in reading format 48% of the students preferred reading electronic text and 52% preferred printed text. In regard to reading Indonesian and English language, the result shows that students prefer reading both in printed text than in electronic text. The other findings are the reason of students’ interest for each format which discerned from the highest standard deviation and mean, for electronic text there are easy of searching, easy of archive and cost saving, meanwhile, for printed text, there are reliability easy of highlighting and ease of use.

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