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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
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| 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The findings for this study would highly aid stakeholders in the educational and media sector properly understand the young generation and their perception towards reading. It would help them raise policies that would improve the state of the educational sector in the economy. This study is beneficial to teachers to help them understand how well to educate their students. It could also help in the better planning and restructuring of schools’ curricula. It could also inspire further inquiry to the alternative methods to best educate and elicit the hidden talents of students. This study forecasts the future of newspapers in an epoch that is vastly becoming technologically centralized and driven. To the media, findings from this research can help channel and propagate policies that would be symbiotically beneficial to them, the society, and their audience. Charles Mutazihana (2008) asserts that every educationist and stakeholder “come to terms with the fact that reading is one of the basic building blocks of learning; creating a young generation of skilled and flexible readers will enhance children’s chances of success at school and beyond”. Reading is not just for school, it is for life. It is vital if we want to become better informed, have a better understanding of ourselves and others as we develop our thoughts and become positive contributors towards an independent and organized society (New Times, 2008). By studying reading preferences among children, this study proffered ways through which policies regarding teaching methods, as well as by newspaper publishers to work around ideas to survive in an ever changing environment. This is particularly important because the children (and youth) are the future of any country, especially now that the country is contending with a lot of socio-cultural crises (Olanrewaju & Dibua, 2009). This study can also serve as succinct educational and reference material for further research into this subject area, being that there are only a few in existence locally. Download 261.2 Kb. Share with your friends:
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