Exploring factors affecting general reading habits of teachers and students in English language at Wale Lube Ifa Boru Secondary School.
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2024-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The main objective of this study was to explore factors affecting general reading habit of EFL teachers and students in English Language at Wale Lube Ifa Boru Secondary school. The study employed descriptive research design and data were analyzed in quantitative and qualitative approach. The population of the study were 800 students,5 English language teachers and two librarians of Wale Lube Ifa Boru Secondary School. From these 176 students were selected as a sample by using simple random sampling technique, all English Language teachers and two librarians were selected by using comprehensive sampling technique. The data gathering tools used in this research were interview, questionnaire and focus group discussion.8 interview questions were used for English Language teachers,28 questionnaire(23-closed ended and 5-open ended) were designed and administrated to 176 students as well as 10 interview questions were used for two librarians to gather information about factors affecting reading habit of both teachers and students related to library. The main findings of this study were lack of materials in library, lack of language proficiency. Teachers and students reading habit was also affected by lack of time, absence of reading club in the school. Reading habit in English Language was undermined due to impact of mother tongue on readers and there were no more instructions on students’ textbooks that invite teachers and students to read other materials for further reading based tasks. This study suggested that English Language teachers should give reading based tasks in English Language for their students and read regularly by themselves as role model for their students, they should read materials written in English Language. All stakeholders should make suitable reading environment for readers in the school compound. That means the library should be well equipped with good reading materials written in English Language like books, different literatures like fictions, novels, plays, short story written in English Language and newspapers, magazines that go with readers interest and levels. Another recommendation given for this study were the readers should develop their language proficiency, both EFL teachers and students have establish good reading club of English Language in their school and work collaboratively with all concerned bodies to inspire reading habit in English Language.