The Reluctance to Read Among Primary School Learners from the View Point of Female Teachers

Abstract

The current study aimed to identify from the point of View of female teachers in the State of Kuwait the factors that lead to the reluctance of primary school learners to read. To achieve this, the researcher prepared a questionnaire to identify the opinions of female teachers in the primary stage about the factors that lead to the reluctance of learners to read. The questionnaire was divided into four dimensions, i.e. the educational and social factors, Factors, family factors and personal factors. The analysis of results was based on arithmetic means, percentages of means and analysis of variance. The results showed that the item that states that the textbook is sufficient and makes it the only source of learning in the educational factors dimension ranked first with a score of 80%.18. As for the dimension related to social factors, it ranked first in the item that states that” the society in which the individual lives does not care much about freedom of reading with books” with a rate of 77.2%, while it ranked first in the dimension. Among the individual family factors, it states that the family environment does not encourage reading in leisure time by 75%. It ranked first in the dimension of individual personal factors, which states that learners are satisfied with the information provided by the teacher at a rate of 91.66%, that personal factors are the most factors that lead to reluctance learners about reading.