A study on students’ lackadaisical attitude in learning literature in an ESL classroom / Valentina Freni Affrin Madu

This study aims to identify the students’ lackadaisical attitude in learning literature in an ESL classroom. It also looks into how literary books or activities help improve students’ English proficiency and to investigate whether the environment around them, be it, in school or at home, are conducive towards the study ofliterature. Forty (40) students of Year Five and Year Six were randomly selected as respondents for the purpose of this study. The data was obtained through questionnaires and interviews with the students. The findings of the study indicated that a significant group of students are reluctant readers because reading is, for them, a passive, boring activity, performed constantly in isolation and perhaps associated with skills which they feel they do not possess. The findings do revealed that there is a lackadaisical attitude in students who are learning
literature in an ESL classroom.