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Chart 1. Types of Reading during 5 Study Years of English Group KMA Students
The survey was conducted
on 19th March 2013 during the English class at the NaUKMA. The
sample contained 15 students, 4 of which were male and 11 were female. The
purpose of the survey was to discover the types of readings read by the
students during their 5 study years.
The survey was conducted
by means of a questionnaire containing 5 questions given to students to
complete. The results are shown in the Line Chart 1.
Overall, it can be seen
that reading for the specialty dominates over other types of
reading in the course of the whole studies. The most noticable results of the
survey are that during the first year, respondents read as much literature for
their specialty as in other specialties. It can testify that in the first year
students develop their general educational background and learn a lot from
other disciplines to form an interdisciplinary perspective. Reading for specialty
reached a peak two times – in the second and in the fourth years. It can be due
to the research work to gain the Bachelor diploma after the fourth year. Notwithstanding
sharp fluctuation, the number of this type of reading kept high also in the
last, fifth year. So, it can be supposed that in the next school year students
will read as much as they did in previous years. Whereas intensivness of
reading for specialty, as was noted, tends to increase in the course of the time,
reading in other specialties shows a significantly different pattern. There was a dramatic
decline in the number of respondents reading this literature in the second
school year. Already in the fourth year only 20% of students read literature in
other specialties; this number remained steady during the next year. As a
result, the number of students reading this type of literature was less than
that of reading any other types of sources.
As for reading news and
reading for pleasure, this was not a popular type during the whole course of
studies. Only 20% of the students read for pleasure during their studying period.
There was a slight drop in the second school year, but in the next year the
trend stabilized. At the beginning, news was the less read type of information
for in the first school year no respondent read it. However, there is a slow
rise in the third and fifth year. In sum, reading news increased by 20% in the
course of studying. So it can be suggested that this number will increase in
the next year as well.
To sum up, students read
more literature in their specialty than any other literature including news.
This trend will presumably persist in the next study year as well.
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