Reading Literature and its Behavioral Implications to the Grade 8 Students of Palo Alto Integrated School
Keywords:
Reading, Literature, Reading habitAbstract
INTRODUCTION
Reading is considered as one of the cheapest recreations. It allows people to acquire information in an instant with just a flip of pages. Numerous reading materials offer a variety of genres to choose from. This study aims to determine behavioral implication of reading literature to the Grade 8 students of Palo Alto Integrated School for the school year 2017 -2018. Particularly, it aims to assess the reading habit, reading level appreciation, and its behavioral implications to the participants.
METHODS
The research study adopted the mixed method in assessing the reading literature and its behavioral implications to the forty-five Grade 8 respondent-students of Palo Alto Integrated School, who are all exposed to the same literary pieces. The quantitative data included close-ended informations about the students reading habit and appreciation that analyses the mean, standard deviation, and descriptive interpretation. Meanwhile, the grounded theory was used to analyze the open-ended information through focus groups and teacher's observations.
RESULTS
Majority of the respondents considered reading in spare time as something without having to consciously remember. Results showed that Grade 8 students of PAIS are readers and have good reading habits. Likewise, the students appreciated the fiction literature as it gave knowledge about other countries’ cultures, values, and beliefs and offered new vocabularies. Literature has great impact on the students' behavior.
DISCUSSIONS
The participants have shown an ability to use or isolate wrong from right and compel judgment in accordance to their prior knowledge and own perception in consideration to values, norms, and beliefs. Hence, literature increased the students' awareness and coping mechanisms with chaotic situations and further refine the students' critical and cognitive skills to ameliorate the quality of life. Thus, this paper proposes the "Theory of Fore sightings”.
