DLSL Reading Habit

Reading habits of DLSL communication students and its impact on their writing course performance Jilianne Carmel D. Lucido

Jean Camille D. Silva

U3A

Communication Research 2015-2016

March 2016

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between a students’ reading habit and their academic performance in school. Reading and writing are two skills widely used in the field of communication. This research is conducted to know the reading habit of DLSL communication students and its impact on their writing courses performance. The objectives presented are: to identify the preferred reading materials of the students; to know how often the students read; to know if they learn from what they read and

These two skills go well together in the improvement of language skills of a person because of early exposure to the knowledge he has gained from childhood. According to Zainal & Husin (2011), reading is a very complex process which requires an active participation on the part of the reader. Writing, on the other hand, is the learned process of shaping experiences into text, allowing the writer to discover, develop, clarify and communicate thoughts and feelings. The reading habits of college students can vary from reading a book per day, a book per week or reading none at all if it does not interest them. What a person reads reflects the reader’s capacity of understanding and level of intellectuality. Cullinan (2000) stated that independent reading is the reading students choose to do on their own. It reflects the reader’s personal choice of the material to be read as well as the time and place to read it. Independent reading is done for information or for

In impact there is meaningful life and accomplished life.

From reading, the reader gains knowledge about the formation of words into sentences in a correct way. The reader grasps the purpose and meaning of the words in a book. There is an inner motivation to finish a book since it interests him. Thus, the Meaningful Life. Meanings can be derived from the formation of thought symbolized by the words stringed together in a sentence. The reader reaches a meaning he has imbibed from the books he has read.

Accomplished Life is also within the Impact since the student gains the urge to achieve and attain goals. Since reading gives pleasure to the reader because he has acquired the habit, it is an accomplishment when he finishes the book, understands its contents and gets entertained in the process. Anderson’s theory comes in this part since it explains the writing styles a reader has unknowingly learnt stored in the memory and is just there for future use. The retrieval of this knowledge is then encoded and executed in his writing. The performance in writing courses is affected by reading habits according to the ACT theory because it is stated there that what the students encode is reflected in their performance. When writing is required from the student, the student merely retrieves what he has learned from the