Reading Preferences andPatterns ofPost-Millennial Filipinos: Basis for the Development of an Android Application

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Schools have to understand the world of the learner, including the ways in which family, friends, peers, and the larger society impact and affect the learner for better or worse. This paper is an attempt to understand the reading experience of learners of this increasingly digital generation. Hence, it is important for the school administrators, teachers, and parents to realize that through careful planning, designing, and use of effective instructional methods a genuine culture of reading is still within reach despite the challenges of a more digital world.

METHODS

This study a qualitative research using the phenomenological approach. It captured the experiences of identified post-millennial Grade 10 learners with reading. The researcher focused on the actual experiences they have gone through, their hobbies and reading preferences. Likewise, the summarized findings from the interviews were discussed in relation with theories and other research findings from the gathered literature.

RESULTS

The study found out that boredom is a basic opening to reading among the respondents. It also revealed that majority of the respondents view reading habits to have an effect on academic performance and that there is a direct relationship between reading habits and academic performance. Learners now spend a lot of time reading from computers and mobile devices. The research into the implications of this are still in the early stages, however current evidence indicates that at this point in time, print may be slightly superior to the screen in relation to comprehension, learning, retention and ease of use. However, as screen technology continues to advance, interfaces become increasingly intuitive and personal preferences change from early exposure to reading on a screen, this may change and may have already changed for some individuals.

DISCUSSIONS

Learners need to develop their reading, comprehension and learning skills in both arenas. They need to develop one set of skills to build their competence in reading and learning from paper, however they also need to develop a completely different set of skill, digital literacy skill.