Reasons behind Aversion from Reading by the Students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Tafila Technical University

Abstract

The study aimed at identifying the reasons behind aversion from reading by the students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Tafila Technical University in relation to the variables of gender and major. To achieve the aims of the study, a questionnaire was constructed. The questionnaire consisted of (45) items; each one represents a reason behind students’ aversion from reading. The questionnaire was administered on a random sample comprising (201) male and female students enrolled in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Tafila Technical University during the second semester of the academic year 2015/2016.

The results revealed that the degree of the samples’ ratings of the reasons behind aversion from reading on the tool as a whole was medium, the main reasons behind aversion from reading by the students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences were electronic addiction and students' tendencies towards having the information which is easy to reach instead of looking for it, and there were no statistically significant differences at level (α = 0.05) attributed to the variables of gender and major.