A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STUDY HABITS OF ENGLISH MEDIUM AND HINDI MEDIUM SCHOOL STUDENTS

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Human beings, from childhood to the old age have the habit of study something. But in life to achieve high success it is necessary to have good study habits. In student's life society, teacher, family, social situation, atmosphere, punishment and gift gives inspiration to them. The success basically depends on their way of study. According to the proverb “tit for tat” student have to study hard to gain success. There are different subtypes of study such as study of textbook, planning of time, skill of note making, concentration, mental ability, explanation of thoughts and understanding the meaning of difficult words , phrases etc. and skill of increasing vocabulary are important. In the present study, since the objectives were to compare study habits of English medium and Hindi medium students studying in secondary schools located in Faridabad district of Haryana, therefore the descriptive survey method was followed which is comparative in nature. The investigator selected two Government schools where medium of instruction was Hindi and two English medium private school of Faridabad for the selection of 100 students as sample for the study. There were 50 students of class 9th whose medium of instruction was Hindi taken from Government schools and 50 students of same class were taken from English medium private schools located in Faridabad district of Haryana state. The Study Habit Inventory (SHI) developed by M. Mukhopadhyay and D. N. Sansanwal (2002) was used as a tool. The findings of the study show that there is slight difference between Study Habits of Hindi medium and English medium students which is statistically insignificant. It can be concluded that Hindi Medium and English Medium students have similar study habits. However, in the context of the mean scores, it can be seen from the table that English Medium students have better study habits than Hindi Medium school students.

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