Reading Habits Of University Students In Pekanbaru

The objective of this research is found out how are reading habits of university students in Pekanbaru. This research focus on how are reading habits of university students in Pekanbaru. This research was a case study design. There are four universities that were being samples and it was consist of 100 university students in Pekanbaru which were 25 students each University (Universitas Islam Riau, Universitas Riau, Universitas Lancang Kuning and Universitas Islam Negri Sultan Syarif Kasim). The instrument of this research was open questionnaire based on reading habits indicators. There are five indicator of reading habits which are attitude toward reading, books read, reading frequency, times spent on reading and motivation on reading. Students reading habits can be seen by the indicators of reading habits from students questionnaires answer. The researcher analyzed the data and find out 84 students have activity in reading, 80 students feeling enjoy when reading, 34 students found out feeling difficult in reading, 74 students have variant amount of books read, 63 students have high amount of reading frequency, 88 students spent their time to read in academic and 83 students spent their time to read books in non-academic, 93 students got motivated from their teacher and 66 students got motivated from their family