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College students are not reading enough literature

Published by Afterschool.my on Sep 26, 2013, 04:55 pm

Literary works seemed to be left out, especially in institutions of higher learning, remarks Prof Datuk Seri Md Salleh Yaapar, chairman of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) Board of Governors.

"Literary works should be given an appropriate place at the institutions of higher learning," he said during the opening seminar of Rejab FI's Thoughts at the Perlis Teachers Education Institute (IPG).

In a research done to find out polytechnic students' reading habits, it appears that respondents prefer to surf the Internet during their leisure time (50.5%) which includes Facebooking. This indicates that students don't prefer to read during their free time. Only 8% of students prefer to read in their spare time.

Not all teachers though have given up in making , their students appreciate great literary works. English teacher Rachel Sharmala Koruthu from SMK Rawang uses "cariterature" (caricature and literature) to help students remember literature characters.

She observed that weaker class students are not interested in reading novels.  Moreover, students tend to get confused and mix up the characters as most stories have many characters. So she used their love for cartoons to teach.

Sharmala said students would be asked to come up with their own cartoons and dialogues, but the theme stayed the same.

"This way, instead of long, lengthy words, they will only look at cartoons.

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