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Reading Habits Among Students

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Abstract: With the influence of the internet nowadays reading habits of the students has gone down day by day. The main aim of this study is to find out the reading habits of students. Simple random sampling method was used and questionnaire was distributed to 100 students of Botany and Chemistry in NEHU, Shillong. The study concluded that the reading habit among the students is not very poor but still more study needs to be conducted to improve the habit of reading among the students. Keywords: Reading, Reading Habit, Postgraduate students. Introduction: Reading helps not only for academic purposes but it also improves people’s language and conversation with others. Reading is one of the most important components of our language and it is an essential tool for lifelong learning for all people (Noor, 2011). Reading is one of the best habits to sharpen our mind and memory, to gain knowledge and to develop one-self in various fields, but unfortunately with the influence of modern technologies students spent very less time on reading and give more preference to other useless things and because of this the habit of reading has been gradually decreased among students these days. Reading Habit: The habit of reading can be considered as a sign of culture. It is a great source of enjoyment and best source of utilizing leisure time. Reading habit refers to the behaviour which expresses the likeness of reading of individual types of reading and tastes of reading (Sangkaeo, 1999, as

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