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Abstract
This study employed a convergent mixed-method research design to investigate current reading habits of college students and its impact on their lives in Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics from China. A total of 456 (285 male and 171 female) college students voluntarily participated in the study by completing a selfreported survey. 50 students participated in semi-structured interviews and classroom observations. Descriptive analysis indicated that the hours students spent weekly (M) on academic reading (AR), extracurricular reading (ER), and the Internet (INT), part-time job(PJ), socializing with others(SO) and sleeping (SL)were 10.15 , 14.42 , 9.39,19.97and 57.15 respectively.too much PJ and INT can affect learning outcomes, sleeping, interpersonal relationships, mood and cognitive activities.More than half of the students believe that new media reading has both advantages and disadvantages for their life and study, which depends on self-management.College students' reading behavior has obvious digital features, but the traditional paper reading is still retained and continued.Students are also eager for teachers to teach professional literature reading skills to avoid wasting too much time on ineffective reading. Keywords: Reading, Reading Habits, Vocational College Students DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-15-01 Publication date: May 31 st 2021
Highlights
Overview of college students' reading behavior Table 1 shows that mobile phones and computers are the main channels for college students to obtain information, accounting for 92.11% and 83.33% respectively.66.9% of the students use wireless network, and 100% of the students consider digital reading as the main way of reading.As the popularity of 5G technology in China has led to a drop in the price of data traffic, more and more students are inclined to use Internet for reading.College students of different grades surf the Internet in different ways.The higher the grade, the more college students use WiFi, and the difference is statistically significant(X2=16.73, P
4.Discussion The results showed that the Internet has changed college students’ read behaviors.Online reading materials, such as e-books, online library databases, video and audio media, are the most common reading materials for college students, and their interest in reading has shifted from traditional reading to digital text reading
Students will use the Internet such as searching for e-books/periodicals, news or information related to academic reading to complete assignments, as well as online interactive applications like QQ and WeChat to share assignments and complete team projects.The widespread use of the Internet has improved their social skills, information literacy skills and learning process, but it has greatly affected the time available for active academic and extracurricular reading activities
Summary
Reading has long been regarded as an important skill throughout life (Allen, etal.,1992).The academic reading ability is one of the core indicators of college students' professional ability, and it is the basis of cultivating innovative ability.Evidence shows that students' academic reading ability comes from reading more, cultivating reading interest and teaching reading strategies (Chen, 2007;Mokhtari etal., 2009;Suhua Huang, 2014). Previous reading surveys mainly focused on hours spent on reading per week (Mokhtari et al.2009;Suhua Huang et al.2014), the most popular reading materials (Gallik, 1999), the difference in reading volume between majors (Jeffries and Atkins, 1996), the selection characteristics of electronic materials and paper materials (Ye Mengliang et al.,2018), but not enough to fully understand the current vocational students' reading behavior, which is the purpose of this survey, in order to help formulate and improve students' professional literature reading strategies
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