Results of Pilot Questionnaire into Reading Habits of Secondary School English Teachers.xlsx

The data shows the results of a small-scale investigation into the reading habits of a group of 14 secondary school English teachers. The participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which investigated what and when they read, what relationship existed between their reading habits and their ability to recommend reading material for their students. The findings show how the teachers felt about their knowledge of and ability to recommend reading material for their students. The results demonstrate that the majority of secondary school English teachers in this study valued reading and read a wide range of texts, but they read for their own enjoyment rather than as a means to recommend books to students, the consequence of which is that around half could neither recommend a text to a student with confidence nor give an example of a YA or younger readers text they had read recently.