Research Proposal "The assessment of positive effect on English reading books habit for for University students

1. A Research Report in Partial Fulfilment of
The Requirements for the Degree
Bachelor of Arts in English
Kum Visal
July 2017
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
NATION RELIGION KING
The assessment of positive effect on English reading
books habit for university students
Student Development Institute
SDI
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2. The assessment of positive effect on English reading books habit for
university students
A Research Report
Presented to
Em Sophors
The Faculty of Arts, Language and Humanity
Student Development Institute
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
In partial fulfilment of
The requirements for the degree
Bachelor of Arts in English
By
KUM VISAL
July 2017

3. APPROVAL SHEET
This Research Report entitled Perception of University Students toward “The assessment
of positive effect on English reading books habit for university students” was prepared
and submitted by Kum Visal in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree
Bachelor of Arts in English
Approved by the Committee with a grade of passed
RESEARCH REPORT SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE
Chairperson of Committee : _________________________
EM Sophors, MA
Committee Member : _________________________
EM Sophors, MA
Committee Member : _________________________
EM Sophors, MA
Course Facilitator : _________________________
EM Sophors, MA
Date of Research Report submission _________________________
Accepted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Arts in English (BA
English)
_________________________
EM Sophors, MA

4. ABSTRACT
The systematic strategies of English reading habit have potentially promoted and
enhanced the students’ ability of reading books, and they are going to expand their reading
effectively. The Extensive and intensive reading have been played key role for students’
paying attention for the specific purpose in order to make more convenient reading habit. The
conception of improving is now being performed for making senses to University students to
make assessment of positive effective reading.
Increasing reading habit of English reading habit has interchanged the new and got
some external ideas for the concepts. Using strategic English reading documents has made a
lot of students know international studies. Integrating knowledge from other sources has
changed students to become easier for searching books for reading. It can assess that for BA
in English students find a good way of thinking and a good habit of reading comprehension.
The specific performance of the result is now being shown to be more motivated to the
adulthood by preparation of year academic for students, and schools, universities are being
played key roles in order to make students’ learning by comprehension reading, extensive
reading or intension reading. Universities should have more competitive researching for
raising reading, so research will make students to be more active in reading in critical ways.
Reading habit will enhance to students’ learning for their many good strategies of sources of
reading.

5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to all the Lecturers of SDI who contributed to making this research a
success. I express my special gratitude to Pro. Em Sophors, my course facilitator, for his
valuable time of support, guidance, and professional advice that immensely contributed to the
completion of this research.
I would like to express my thanks to 10 selected persons who accepted by request for
interview and provided me the information and data to support my research study.
I would also like to thank all my classmates for sharing ideas and experiences, group
work activities in the class, and having good relations.
Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to my parents, sisters, other family members,
my wife and children for their spiritual support, love and encouragement for my personal
growth and improvements. I would like to dedicate this research to them and pray that they
will get the best education as they can from what the world has to offer them.

6. Table of Contents
TITLE PAGE ........................................................................................................................... .i
APPROVAL SHEET .............................................................................................................. .ii
ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................ iii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ....................................................................................................... iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS ......................................................................................................... v
Chapter I
1.1 Introduction ..............................................................................................1
1.2 Statement of problem................................................................................1
1.3 Significance of study.................................................................................2
1.4 Research objectives...................................................................................2
1.5 Research question......................................................................................3
1.6 Scope and Delimitations ...........................................................................3
1.7 Research Methodology..............................................................................3
Chapter II
2.1 Background of reading and enhancing reading.........................................4
2.2 The strategies of reading...........................................................................5
2.3 Extensive knowledge of reading...............................................................6
2.4 Procedural reading.................................................................................... 6
CHAPTER III
3.1 Conclusions ..............................................................................................7
3.2 Recommendations.....................................................................................8
References (APA Style)

7. CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
Extensive widespread of foreign language, English, has widely over the world for
tourism and e-commerce for all nations to open (Guerra., et al 2013). At present, our
educational authorities have considered necessary the teaching of English as a second
language (L2), from elementary school up to university levels (Manzano, 2007).
People that handle English have better job opportunities because they read, write
and use that language fluently (Phillips, 2003). International enterprises are nowaday
hiring English speaking persons with better salaries, either to work here in others or to be
sent abroad to their company’s offices, being conscious that their employees will be able
to communicate successfully. By using these practical pieces of advice, learners
understand the differences between English and their own language, are able read, and to
produce their personal reading strategies in order to succeed when reading English texts
(Guerra., et al 2013).
For conducting the research project will provide the investigation on effect on
English reading habit for BA of English at Student Development Institute where students’
performances have been studying and practicing English. Studying this project will be
fruitful information to get easy seeking the strategic keys of improving English reading
habit.
1.2 Statement of The problem
According to Joel (2016) suggest that reading comprehension is one of the most
essential skills that should be developed and nurtured in a child at home and in school because
it is fundamental to success in academic life and beyond. ). Abdulkareem (2015) has
interestingly mentioned that the “two IELTS reading passages with varied difficulty were

8. used to consider whether the difficulty index of the text would interact with different reading
strategies and learning styles” (p. 163).
According to Dickinson and Smith (1994) concluded that teachers in not standard
classrooms can’t enhance the effectiveness of their oral-reading time without major
instructional changes, interested in any reading material that is with humor, fun, enjoyment,
and pleasure.
Other standardized learning and English reading can effect to university students, and
all students will complete all task to make improvement for English documents learning.
Students should find other international documents for studying and making senses, and the
problems have now considered English reading for building the ability of learning effectively
at Student Development Institution. It will explore and enhance students’ reading habit more
interestingly.
1.3 Significant of the Study
It will give beneficial a lot for this conducting the research proposal for enhancing the
intelligent reading comprehension for students’ reading habit. This study will strongly collect
and make changes to better developed in self-education of English reading habit. The research
will help students to get the strategy for improving the English University Students, and it
analyzes the conceptual rule for completing way of studying.
1.4 Research Objectives
This project research proposal will be conducted at Student Development Institute to
students’ performances ability of English reading documents. This proposed will reach
achieving the following.
1. To identify the most influent effect behind the result of increasing English
reading

9. 2. To analyze the important of foreign language documents
3. To find out the students’ abilities and possibilities of English reading
4. To identify the differences of getting knowledge from other sources
1.5 Research questions
To achieve the aforementioned research objectives, this proposed thesis research will seek
to answer the following research questions.
1. In what the most influent effect does reading increase knowledge?
2. What can students’ abilities read in English language?
3. What are the different sources be used for increasing knowledge?
1.6 Scope and Delimitations
The assessment of the university students is no being shown the processing of
students’ reading, and it will find out the types of students’ specification on reading as
extensive reading, intensive reading. The limitation of the time is to differently associate with
the students’ studying. With the obstacle of interviewing with teachers and students is having
the problem for taking the time to date. I will interview all ten teachers and ten students who
are in the same places’ teaching and learning or in only one institution, and they will and I
confidently collect the information or data which teachers and students provided.
1.7 Research Methodology
The research proposal is qualitative research, and it will find out and discover the
improvement students’ English reading habit which will take place at Student development
Institution. For analyzing and detailing the information of study design, participant, research
instrument, ethical issues and analysis plan. For this research proposal, it is a Case Study
Students of Bachelor Degree of Education, SDI by using the qualitative and participants
observation to find out the English reading document for and reading habit at student

10. Development Institute. Finding out the reading style of 10 teachers and 10 students, they are
recruited as persons in SDI. Other, I used unstructured interview, participants observation,
and they will exactly use as tools for collecting the information. Analyzing the data for this
research by using computer analysis, and it depending on the research framework for planning
Chapter 2: Literature review
The review of the literature that is relevant to style of English reading and kind of
improving the ability of reading habit, and it is different types of reading habit. The first, will
give us such improving the reading, and after that it is also the extensive knowledge by
reading and procedural reading styles. It about detailed literature will be provided as
following.
2.1 Background of reading and enhancing reading
Reading is the most important aspect of educational activities, one of the fundamental
academic skills that students are expected to acquire in their first few years of schooling (
Güzel, 1998). John, Katherine, Elizabeth, Mitchell and Daniel. (2013) “Suggest that the
students often have to learn large of information, which requires them to identify what is
important and how different ideas connect to one another”. According to Acheaw (2014),
reading habits determine the academic achievements of students to a great extent. Both
reading and academic achievements are interrelated and dependent on each other. Students
often come from different environments and localities with different levels of academic
achievement. Reading comprehension is a process of unlocking meaning from connected text
reading comprehension as a great source of knowledge have been one of the important parts
in second/foreign language test and examinations (Sadeghi et al. 2012).

11. According to the reader: the Reader Organization has extensive experience of reading
for pleasure with children and young people both in groups and one to one, in schools and
other settings. According to English for everyone, (2016). one aspect of language that
students could study (or that educators could teach), it would invariably be reading
comprehension, beloved reading comprehension, a friend to nearly every teacher of language.
According to Joel (2016) suggest that reading comprehension is one of the most essential
skills that should be developed and nurtured in a child at home and in school because it is
fundamental to success in academic life and beyond.
2.2 The strategies of reading
(Li, 2012) study addressed the issue of how the use of learning strategies influenced
the students’ reading literacy performance: student and reading. Chun (2013) claimed that
“His study will identify young readers’ reading and its relationship to reading
comprehension”. According to Wallace (2016) claimed that it really has helped me
tremendously, because in college, they don't really teach you how to do guided reading. In
this study, “for the first time in reading research, reading activities were categorized as prose,
document, quantitative, and prose-document hybrid tasks” (sheida et al,. 2010, p 134). In the
field of reading, metacognitive strategies are those activities that make students aware of their
thinking as they do reading tasks (Joel, 2016).
The Real World Tasks (RWT)’s point that “study is diary study to fill in theses
gaps” (Sheida, et all., 2010, p 134). The use of metacognitive reading strategies of the
respondents was surveyed using the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) questionnaire
developed by Mohktari and Sheorey (2002). Abdulkareem (2015) has interestingly mentioned
that the “two IELTS reading passages with varied difficulty were used to consider whether the
difficulty index of the text would interact with different reading strategies and learning styles”
(p. 163).

12. 2.3 Extensive knowledge of reading
Reading is a core receptive skill that foreign language learners utilize to gain input for
learning a language or any other subjects or outside the classroom ( Hajaya, 2012). Global
learner-based passage used in the reading strategy that exclusively depended on skimming,
scanning, evaluating the text, writing summaries, and expanding the text (Hajay and
Khresheh, 2012). Overcoming the negative and debilitative effects of anxiety on all the four
skills particularly reading comprehension, it should be of utmost important and high priority
(Jafarigohar, 2013, pp 162).
According to Messer (2011). claimed that there is also evidence that the development
of reading has its own specific effects on a range of cognitive skills – in particular, being able
to read seems to assist the development of vocabulary and phonological skills. According to
Eva (2017) found that Students in independent schools achieved better on the reading test
than did students in public schools, but when parents’ education was controlled for, the effect
on students’ achievement of school type disappeared. AsJoel (2016) pointed out that
“reading comprehension is one of the most essential skills that should be developed and
nurtured in a child at home and in school because it is fundamental to success in academic life
and beyond”. According to Hajaya (2012) claimed that “The present study attempted to
examine the effect of a reading instructional strategy and the cognitive learning style on the
reading achievement of the Freshmen English majors” (p. 235).
2.4 Procedural reading
The way in which a teacher organizes their class, or how they control it, will yield
positive or negative consequences for their students. If a teacher is unmotivated or negative
there will be a direct impact on the students within the classroom (Hannah, 2013, p. 11).
According to Dickinson and Smith (1994) concluded that teachers in standard classrooms can

13. enhance the effectiveness of their oral-reading time without major instructional changes. The
respondents are very much interested in any reading material that is with humor, fun,
enjoyment, and pleasure. This means that they prefer reading for entertainment purposes to
education purposes (Joel, 2016).
CHAPTER III CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The aim of this chapter is to potentially promote and show the summary and the
recommendation for enhancing the comprehension of English reading for University which it
will be following.
3.1 Conclusions
According to Adler (2001) claimed that “Comprehension strategies are conscious
plans — sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text. Comprehension strategy
instruction helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own
reading comprehension.” GÜLDENOĞLU (2016) suggested that “ when analyzing the
reading theories in which readers’ word-decoding processes are described in detail, it can be
seen that these processes are explained in terms of two basic word-reading theories.”
According to Maley (2009) provided that “Reading is the most readily available form of
comprehensible input, especially in places where there is hardly any contact with the target
language”.
Integrating concepts and theories learned in the classes have now been playing very
important in English reading, and the theories have internationally provided the concepts for
pushing and citing the international language “English” is a kind of way for international
learning. Increasing reading habit of English reading habit has interchanged the new and got
some external ideas for the concepts. Using strategic English reading documents has made a
lot of students know international studies. It can assess that for BA in English students find a
good way of thinking and a good habit of reading comprehension.

14. 3.2 Recommendations
According to helpful of the research, I have potentially given and enhanced of specific
direction in quickly developing.
- The parents should take more responsible for the children when they were
young, and puss and push their children to be more active in reading. Taking
the action to your children’s reading habit, they will regularly like and read the
books for the specific purpose.
- To be more motivated to the adult by preparation of year academic for
students, and schools, universities are being played key roles in order to make
students’ learning by comprehension reading, extensive reading or intension
reading.
- Universities should have more competitive researching for raising reading, so
research will make students to be more active in reading in critical ways.

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17. APPENDICES
QUESTIONNAIRE
I, a student from Student Development Institute, and I am conducting the research and
surveying on The Assessment of the positive effect on students’ English Reading habit for
University Students. I want to take your time only 10 minutes to fill the following important
questions, and it is very necessity for adults’ reading habit for their enhancing learning and
reading.
House
No___________.St___________.Commune______________________District____________
__________________.
1. Which University you attend?  Public University  Private University
2. What are the sources of reading?
Library Books Electronic books Other
3. Are they in English Khmer Other
If the interview uses English for reading, please go to question 4, and if uses others stop.
4. How much time you spend to read books?
 1 hour  2 hours  3 hours  others
5. What are sources of English Book which students generate the worldwide knowledge?
 Educational Books  Scientific Books  Novel Books  Others
6. Have you ever read Education Books?