An Investigation to Improve Reading Skills through Newspapers among Intermediate Students

Abstract

English is a language that has won the international significance in every field of life from teaching and learning to business world. The current paper aimed to improve reading skills through different sources among students, explore the difference between students’ reading habits in control and experimental groups, and investigate the difference in the performance between regular and irregular newspaper readers. The study was experimental with control and experimental design randomly selected intermediate students from Public Sector College, in Bahawalpur City. The control group used traditional text book reading method. The experimental group was allotted different assignments of reading newspapers. The students used to read newspaper daily one hour during college time. After six weeks’ reading, the test named, Reading Assessment Skills Checklist (RASC) was applied. The t-test results show that experimental group students have higher performance than that of control group students. The intermediate students who used to read the newspapers regularly performed better in the test as compared with the students who read the newspapers irregularly. It is suggested that newspaper reading should be encouraged among students to improve their reading habits.

Keywords

• Newspaper reading
• Performance of students
• Reading Proficiency

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