A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth

A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth

Many activities and strategies had been implemented to nurture reading habit among Malaysian citizens. In a bid to boost reading programs, the Malaysian Government has outlined several approaches that are hoping to expand the reading culture among the citizens. However, statistics revealed by the Na...

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Main Authors: Murad, Mirahida, Ibrahim, Mansor, Abdul Malek, Nurhayati, Abdullah, Fadzidah, Hashim , Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: KAED, IIUM 2013
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spelling iium-339972015-04-01T02:49:01Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/33997/ A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth Murad, Mirahida Ibrahim, Mansor Abdul Malek, Nurhayati Abdullah, Fadzidah Hashim , Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun NA Architecture Many activities and strategies had been implemented to nurture reading habit among Malaysian citizens. In a bid to boost reading programs, the Malaysian Government has outlined several approaches that are hoping to expand the reading culture among the citizens. However, statistics revealed by the National Library that Malaysian read 8 to 12 books per year. Compared to our nearest neighbor, Singaporeans read 30 books per year .People in Britain and Japan read an average of 20 books per year. So this means that, in the reading level perspective, Malaysia is far behind developed countries in the world. Empirical studies found that teenagers are reading fewer books in general and reading is declining as an activity among teenagers and they had a bad impression towards the library. Consequently, the library is used by teenagers mainly to study or do homework rather than to borrow items to read at leisure. De Medina (1976) found that reading which is outside school hours occurred when there was an allocated place to carry out reading activity. Having all these considerations, the main part of this research intention is to develop the concept of reading kiosks specifically to attract the teenagers in the study area. Based on the review undertaken, there is no study being conducted in assessing reading habit in relation to the built environment. Thereby, it is the interest of the research to investigate the relationship between reading habit and built environment, thus investigating the suitable design criteria of a reading place that can attract people coming for reading and finally proposing the concept of reading kiosk as a final output of the research. The participants of the research were the secondary school students at SMK Gombak Setia and SMK Bandar BaruSentul. This paper however, discusses the literature review on the reading habit, the approaches and the concept of the library being applied to promote reading activity among the citizens and also outline the research methodology that likely to partake. This study and review might be helpful in formulating the recommendations on the concept of reading kiosk as a final output of this research. KAED, IIUM 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33997/1/Binder1.pdf Murad, Mirahida and Ibrahim, Mansor and Abdul Malek, Nurhayati and Abdullah, Fadzidah and Hashim , Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun (2013) A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth. In: International Conference on Architecture and Built Environment 2013 (ICABE2013), 7th-8th Nov. 2013, KAED, IIUM and Putrajaya, Malaysia.
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Murad, Mirahida
Ibrahim, Mansor
Abdul Malek, Nurhayati
Abdullah, Fadzidah
Hashim , Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun
A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth
description Many activities and strategies had been implemented to nurture reading habit among Malaysian citizens. In a bid to boost reading programs, the Malaysian Government has outlined several approaches that are hoping to expand the reading culture among the citizens. However, statistics revealed by the National Library that Malaysian read 8 to 12 books per year. Compared to our nearest neighbor, Singaporeans read 30 books per year .People in Britain and Japan read an average of 20 books per year. So this means that, in the reading level perspective, Malaysia is far behind developed countries in the world. Empirical studies found that teenagers are reading fewer books in general and reading is declining as an activity among teenagers and they had a bad impression towards the library. Consequently, the library is used by teenagers mainly to study or do homework rather than to borrow items to read at leisure. De Medina (1976) found that reading which is outside school hours occurred when there was an allocated place to carry out reading activity. Having all these considerations, the main part of this research intention is to develop the concept of reading kiosks specifically to attract the teenagers in the study area. Based on the review undertaken, there is no study being conducted in assessing reading habit in relation to the built environment. Thereby, it is the interest of the research to investigate the relationship between reading habit and built environment, thus investigating the suitable design criteria of a reading place that can attract people coming for reading and finally proposing the concept of reading kiosk as a final output of the research. The participants of the research were the secondary school students at SMK Gombak Setia and SMK Bandar BaruSentul. This paper however, discusses the literature review on the reading habit, the approaches and the concept of the library being applied to promote reading activity among the citizens and also outline the research methodology that likely to partake. This study and review might be helpful in formulating the recommendations on the concept of reading kiosk as a final output of this research.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Murad, Mirahida
Ibrahim, Mansor
Abdul Malek, Nurhayati
Abdullah, Fadzidah
Hashim , Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun
author_facet Murad, Mirahida
Ibrahim, Mansor
Abdul Malek, Nurhayati
Abdullah, Fadzidah
Hashim , Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun
author_sort Murad, Mirahida
title A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth
title_short A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth
title_full A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth
title_fullStr A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth
title_full_unstemmed A literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth
title_sort literature review on developing reading kiosk concept for nurturing reading habit among youth
publisher KAED, IIUM
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/33997/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/33997/1/Binder1.pdf
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