Reading habits: parental factors that affect poor reading habits among the slow ESL learners in year 4 class of SK Riih Daso / Taly Lune

The year 4 students of SK. Riih Daso were found to have poor reading habits to English reading materials. Due to this, they failed in their English tests. This is because their lack of reading English books makes them not competent in the language. Their attitudes towards English make them not interested in reading English books and they found the language difficult to learn. To find the cause, the researcher selected 20 students in the class to answer the close-ended questionnaire in 20 minutes time. After that the researcher interviews the students to get additional information. The researcher used English and Malay languages to conduct the questionnaire and interview. A quantitative and qualitative research was used in the study. The responses were analyzed using the Satistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) to get the result from the correlation and significant ofthe variables in the study. The aim ofthe research is to find out the parental factors that affect poor reading habits among the slow ESL learners in the class so that further actions can be taken to solve the problem. The result ofstudy will be use to help parents, teachers and the students to improve their reading habits on English reading materials so that the students are competence in the language and pass in the English tests given to them. The data collected from the study shows that parental factors do affect the poor reading habits among the slow ESL learners in Year 4 class of SK. Riih Daso. This is because the parents do not really care about their children reading habits and their studies as a whole because as why they have to works hard to earn a living for their families. The correlation of the variables gives a strong significant relationship on the parental factors to affect the students’ poor reading habits.