The Study of Correlations among Home Reading Activities, Class Reading Activities and Reading Motivation for the Sixth Graders

• Main Authors: Chen, Chinghui, 陳靜惠
• Other Authors: Lu, Wenhui
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07121022145934580542

碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 教育研究所 === 101 === The purpose of this study is to investigate how students’ home reading activities and class reading activities could explain for the reading motivation of students at the elementary schools. In addition, the researcher tried to explore the differences in reading motivation among students of different backgrounds. A total of 816 students and 30 class teachers participated in this study. The students filled out the questionnaires of reading motivation and home reading activities, and the teachers filled out the questionnaire of class reading activities. Results of Descriptive Statistics, T-test, One-way ANOVA, and Hierarchical Linear Model ( HLM) showed that: 1. The class reading activities were at fair level, but the home reading activities were at low to middle levels. 2. The reading motivation of the students were high in average. 3. Students of different sex and family social economic status (SES) differed in their home reading activities. Female scored higher than male. High SES families scored higher than low SES families. 4. The differences of students' reading motivation were more predictable with home readingactivities than class reading activities. 5. Children tended to have better reading motivation if the family could use more social resources, and the class teachers could provide richer library resources. Suggestions for parents, educators, and further researchers were provided based on the results.