Writer : Jacqueline Richburg Burgess
Journal/Newspaper : The Reading Teacher, Vol. 38, No. 9 (May, 1985), pp. 845-848
Date published : 2012 Number of words: 312
List no. : 331
This article written by a specialist reading, named Jacqueline Richburg Burgess. She tried to modify independent leisure reading habits of students at home. This is action research study. The method used is survey method. 32 remedial reading students (22 boys and 10 girls) from second to eighth grades participated. Parents of each child received a letter explaining the "why" and "how" of the behavior modification program. A home reading calendar entitled "Independent Home Reading" accompanied the letter. The results indicated that the frequency of the target behavior -reading at home- definitely increased during the reinforcement phase. The mean rate of the behavior for the group during baseline was .31 days; that means that less than 1 out of 3 students read at home on even 1 day of the 5 surveyed.
The writer put herself as a surveyor who conducts this study by giving Independent Home Reading and Home Reading Program Instructions to parents of each student.
I agree with the result of the study that the reinforcement of reading at home can increase student’s reading habit. Sometimes, students need to be forced to make them to do something including reading. Since teacher cannot monitor them 24 hour, so this way is very effective o make them read.
When I was in junior high school, my teacher always suggested us to read before we have the class, but it never works because there is no reinforcement from him to make us read. It even occurs when I have already been in college. Extensive reading subject really effective way to force us read at home.
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