WHAT MAKES EFL STUDENTS ESTABLISH GOOD READING HABITS IN ENGLISH

Abstract

To have an ability to cope with the demand in reading English and to develop reading habits in English is significant for EFL students because they are engaged much in reading English literature to achieve their academic success. This article aims at exploring what makes EFL students establish good reading habits in English. This is a multi- case study towards the EFL students who already established good habits in reading English. The results of the present study provided valuable insights that the EFL students’ reading habits in English is established if they live in a good literacy environment with parents reading them aloud, have regular reading motivation and good reading habits in L1, and have access to digitalized texts and phenomenal literary works. Indeed, the establishment of the EFL students’ good reading habits in English is contributed by the individual, social, cultural and technological construct factors.

Key words: factors; reading habits in English.

Author
Erna Iftanti