An Overview of Home Video, Cyber Culture and Reading Habits of Senior Secondary School Students in Ibadan City
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2008
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Industrial Science Centre, Sango-Ota
Abstract
A generally poor reading culture has been identified as the major factor for the abysmally poor performance of a typical Nigerian student in various subjects at school as well as in public examinations. For students in urban areas, the home video culture and the cyber culture have also been blamed as catalysts to the poor reading culture among the students. This simple survey conducted on a sample of three hundred students in Ibadan City sought to find out the length of time being habitually spent by senior secondary students on each of these three sub-cultures in Ibadan city. The results of the data obtained through a self-constructed and validated twenty-two-item questionnaire reveal that reading is the most frequently engaged in by the students, but home videos hold the students’ attention longer than reading while Internet browsing is the least stayed-on activity, perhaps because they have to pay. Only 52% of the respondents reports reading books other than recommended textbooks, all of them stated that they find internet and home video materials more easily comprehensible than their textbooks. They also rank Home videos, the internet and their subject-based textbooks educative in descending order. It is thus advised that the Internet and home videos be exploited to reinforce the students’ reading culture.
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peer reviewed
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reading culture, poor performance, home video culture, cyber culture, Internet
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Olatunji, S.O (2008). An Overview of Home Video, Cyber Culture and Reading Habits of Senior Secondary School Students in Ibadan City. International Journal of Socio-Economic Development and Strategic Studies 3(1&2),173-182