A Study of Taiwanese Vocational High School Students'' English Reading Comprehension, Reading Motivation and Reading Attitude

• Main Authors: Shu-Fen Yu, 游淑芬
• Other Authors: Shu-Chu Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90896230709584659921

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 應用外語系碩士班 === 99 === The purpose of this study was to investigate if the students’ reading motivation and reading attitude would affect students’ reading comprehension. In addition, the researcher would like to observe the relationship among the reading comprehension, reading motivation and reading attitude. The participants of this study were 53 first graders (19 boys and 34 girls) from a private vocational high school in central Taiwan. The researchers evaluated participants’ performance by using the Pearson correlation to investigate the relationship among reading comprehension, reading motivation and reading attitude after she made students read five TOEIC articles for 12 weeks. Although the result of students’ reading attitude did not show any difference after finishing training, the relationship between their reading motivation and reading comprehension was significance, including intrinsic motivation , social motivation and overall reading motivation. Finally, students with high reading motivation had higher reading comprehension grades than those with low reading motivation did. Pedagogical implication and suggestion for future studies were provided.