Reading Habits among Student Teachers In Relation To Their Age, Gender and Management

Abstract

A good reading habit is necessary for a healthy intellectual growth and plays a very crucial role in enabling a person to achieve practical efficiency. Reading Habits means behavior which express the lightness of reading of individual, which occur regularly of leisure reading approach, type of reading tastes of reading & use of library services. Reading habit is an active skill – based process of constructing meaning and gaining knowledge from oral, visual and written text. The present study was conducted on 600 student teachers from Hyderabad and Ranga Reddy districts of Telangana State. The result reveals that there was a significant difference in reading habits in relation to their age, gender and management among student teachers.