اتجاهات طلاب المدارس الثانوية نحو قراءة الصحف المدرسية بمحافظة الغربية : دراسة ميدانية

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Aims: this main goal of this study is to have an answer for the following question: what, when, and why do students of secondary school in Al-Gharbia read school newspaper? Hence, a field study document has been designed to find their motives for reading and their preferences also, the reasons that prevent them from reading them.

Results: the most significant results of the study are: 76.6% of the students read school newspaper, while 23.4% of them do not, results also show that males exceeded females in Reading the newspaper.

(The ratio was: 78% males vs.

69.2% females), A high rate of secondary school students read newspapers, where those who do not read 13% think the reason beyond that is neither having time nor the appropriacy of the content to their taste, The “School Yard” newspaper is still the supreme regarding the number of readers It is also highly read 48.3% by the students of the sample.

Results show that the best place to read the newspaper is the School yard, followed by the library.

The best time to read is the break and that is because most readers read as soon as they get a break.

Regarding the desires fulfilled out of reading the newspapers, results showed that; Reading the newspapers enable them to follow the Internet & external affairs and be acquainted with the analysis of the current events and issues.

It increases their cultural orientation and help them to relax and spend their time.

The political, social and economic contents are the most widely read by the sample of students.

Using photo and colors help to attract the readers’ attention to the topics published in the journals.