Tutorial (5): Citations

Ahmad Faris Hakim Bin Ahmad Halimi

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Reading Habits Among Students and its Effect on Academic Performance

Reading habits are well-planned and deliberate pattern of study which has attained a form of
consistency on the part of students toward understanding academic subjects and passing at
examinations. 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. Therefore, they differ in the pattern of reading habits. What's more,
study habits have additionally been connected with academic accomplishment. The easiest
marker of what the review propensities for a student to involve is to watch the quantity of
hours being utilized to think about in a run of the mill week (Adeyemo & Kuye, 2006, cited in
Jamil & Khalid, 2016, p. 47)
While students have good reading habits, others tend to exhibit poor reading habits. A creative
and pragmatic education involves the habit of personal investigation. The act of personal
investigation requires self-study to be followed by self-thinking and analysis. Self-study,
otherwise referred to as reading at ones own accord, requires a habit, which is known as
reading habit. Reading makes way for a better Reading and academic achievement are
essential for research workers and educationists to know that every child whether he or she is
gifted, average, normal or backward, should be educated in his or her own way but if he or she
possesses good study habits, he or she can perform well in academics and in every situation.
According to Siahi & Maiyo (2015), It is general, student who practices good study habits
were the one who excel rather then the one who donts .It is the reading habits which help the
learner in obtaining meaningful and desirable knowledge.

References:
Jamil, F. & Khalid, R. (2016). Predictors of Academic Achievement in Primary School
Students. Vol. 31, No. 1, 45-61
Retrieved from

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http://www.pjprnip.edu.pk/pjpr/index.php/pjpr/article/viewFile/353/370
Siahi, E., A. & Maiyo, J,. K. (2015). Study of the relationship between study habits and
academic achievement of students: A case of Spicer Higher Secondary School, India.
Vol. 7(7), pp. 134-141. DOI: 10.5897/IJEAPS2015.0404
Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1077791.pdf

Social media and their use in learning

Social networking websites as virtual communities for people interested in a particular subject
or just to hang-out together. Social networking sites (SNSs) or social media provide the virtual
space for people to communicate and get together, hence it is arguably one of the most
appropriate avenues for students to exchange ideas and learn from each other.
According to Daalsgard (2008), cited in Hamat, Embi and Hassan (2012) , SNS were utilize
by students to gain insights of each others work, toughts and creation without boundaries and
easily.
This particular functionality has garnered the interests of academics to promote social media
as part of the teaching and learning platform. As mobile smart phones are widely accepted in
society, SMART education had been implanted by the Korean Ministry of Education, science
and technology. Mobile smart phones is focused on activating online learning with digital
input, which now had became the key issues in the Korean education field (Kim and Song,
2012).
While the use of social media is popular in many higher institutions, research shows this does
not necessarily translate to student success. It could lie with various factors, one of which may
be cultural, the other possibly behavioural. Studies shown that using social media had bad
impact of privacy (Pempek, Yermolay - eva, & Calvert, 2009; Special & Li-Barber, 2012,
cited Balakrishnan & Shamim, 2013).As social media encompasses interaction and social
communication, this study hypothesises that cultural influences play a significant role in the
use of social media in higher education.

References:
Hemat, A., Embi, M. A.,& Hassan, H. A. (2012). The Use of Social Networking Sites

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among Malaysian University Student. International Education Studies Vol. 5 No. 3.
doi:10.5539/ies.v5n3p56
Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1066893.pdf

Kim, S, -H., & Song, K. S. (2012). A Meta-Analysis on the Application of SNS in

Education for SMART Learning: Focusing on Korean Case. Creative Education 2012.
Vol.3, Supplement. 82-85. DOI:10.4236/ce.2012.38b018
Retrieved from: http://file.scirp.org/pdf/CE_2013011709410296.pdf

Balakrishnan, V., & Shamim, Azra. (2013). Malaysian Facebookers: Motives and
addictive behaviours unraveled. Computers in Human Behavior 29 (2013) 1342-1349.
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