READING HABITS AND READING THE SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' ATTITUDES ON

Abstract

This study explores reading habits and attitudes toward reading of the second stage primary school students. For this study, 14-item "reading profiles" and a questionnaire consisting of several socio-demographic questions are implemented to 688 students studying in rural schools throughout the province of Tokat. Gender distributions of those surveyed consists of 52.3% female, 47.7% percent the male students. And 36.8% of the students is 6th grade, % 28.6 of them is 7th grade, and 34.6% of them is 8th grade. The research data is interpreted by percent and frequency calculations. The research results show that students devote a lot of time to the library and classroom library, they read books regularly; but this situation is limited to applied by many schools as “reading time”, they don't to speak enough about books they read, and they show the reasons such as individual, socio-economic and educational troubles.