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大學生在以英語為外語環境中之學習動機與閱讀策略之研究 / The Investigation of College Students’ Learning Motivation and Reading Strategies in an EFL Learning Context

本研究旨在探討大學生的學習動機與閱讀策略間的相關。台灣南部的英語教師能借此研究進而了解學生之學習狀況與閱讀過程間所帶來之障礙。本研究探討在學生的閱讀過程中,影響學生學習動機之閱讀問題與閱讀策略。本研究的參與對象為二十四位國立屏東教育大學英語系二年級學生。在學期初與學習末時,受試者均接受前後測問卷調查、閱讀測驗、以及訪談。研究者依據受試者所填寫之問卷結果進行訪談,所有訪談皆對話錄音。最後,所有收集資料皆使用量化與質化分析。以下為本研究之研究發現:
一、 學生之學習動機與閱讀策略有相關。
二、 學生之閱讀策略與閱讀表現有相關。
三、 學生經常使用之閱讀策略為:
1. 我會先掌握文章的大綱,然後再仔細閱讀內容。
2. 我的腦海會出現文章內容的畫面。
3. 我會跳過不懂的部分並且透過可以理解的文章內容來幫助閱讀。
四、每位受試者對於閱讀練習之回應為正向態度。 / The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation between college students’ learning motivation and reading strategies that may affect their reading comprehension. In order to help English teachers in southern Taiwan, this study may help these teachers to understand students’ learning situations and obstacles that may affect their reading. This study explored college students’ reading problems that influenced their learning motivation and reading strategies in their reading process.
The participants of the study were twenty-four English-majored sophomores of National Pingtung University of Education. In the beginning and the end of the semester, participants were received the pre-study and post-study questionnaires, reading comprehension tests, and interviews during the semester. The researcher interviewed every participant based on the questionnaire results completed by themselves, and all interviews were audio-recorded. Finally, all of the data collected during the study were analyzed both qualitatively andquantitatively. The followings are the finding of the study:
1. There is correlation between students’ learning motivation and reading strategy.
2. There is correlation between students’ reading strategies and reading performance.
3. The most frequently reading strategies used by individual participants are
(1) I will catch the article’s theme, than read the content carefully.
(2) While reading, the pictures of context often show up in my mind
(3)I will ignore the unreadable parts, and figure out the whole content through the readable parts.
4. Individual participant’s response toward their reading practice belonged to positive attitude. / Chinese Abstract……………………………………………………..…i
English Abstract………………………………………………....……..ii
Table OF CONTENTS………………………………………………...iii
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION…………………...……….…….1

Background and Motivation……………………………...….…….1

Purpose of the Study………………………………………………..2

Research Questions…………………………………………………2

Significance of the Study……………………………………………3

Definitions of Terms………………………………………………...4



CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW………………………….6

Research on Learning motivation……………………….………..……6

Research on Reading Strategies………………………………………10

Research on Learning Community…………………………………...12

Related Studies in EFL Context……………………………….......….14

Research on Learning motivation………………………….…..……..14

Research on Reading Strategies……………………………..…….….18

The Present Study…………………………………………..…….…....22





CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY……………………………..23


Research Design……………………..……………………………..23

Participants and Background……………..………………………24

Procedure…………………………………………………………..25

Instruments………………………………………………………...27

Questionnaires……………………………………………………..27

Reading Comprehension Tests……………………………………28

Interviews……………………………….……….….……..……….28

Data Collection and Analysis…………………………….….……….29



CHAPTER FOURRESULTS AND DISCUSSION………………….30

The correlation between students’ learning motivation and reading strategies……………………………………………………………….30

The correlation between learning motivation and reading strategiesscores in the pre-test (the highest 8th scores)…………………………………………………………...….30

The correlation between learning motivation and reading strategiesscores in pre-test (the lowest 8th scores)………………………………………………………...…….32



The correlation between learning motivation and reading strategiesscores in the post-test (the highest 8th scores)……………………………………………………...……...…33

The correlation between learning motivation and reading
strategiesscores in the post-test (the lowest 8th scores)…………. 35

Summary…………………………………...………………………36

Discussion………………..…………………………………..……..36

The correlation between students’ reading strategies and reading performance……………………………………………………………37

The correlation between reading strategies and reading performance scores in pre-test (the highest 8th scores)………………………………………………………..……..37

The correlation between reading strategies and reading performance scores in pre-test (the lowest 8th scores)………………………………………………………………38

The correlation between reading strategies and reading performance scores in post-test (the highest 8th scores)…………………………………………………......……..…40

The correlation between reading strategies and reading performance scores in post-test (the lowest 8th scores)………………………………………………………………41

Summary………………………………...……..…………………..42

Discussion…………………………………..……………………....43


The reading strategies most frequently used by individual participants………………………………………………………...…..43

What kinds of reading strategies do you use while reading?.......44

When you reading interestingarticles, which reading strategies do you use……………………………………………………………...45

When you read uninterestingarticles, which reading strategies do you use?................................................................................................... 47

When you read an easy article, which reading strategies do you use?.....................................................................................................48

When you read difficult article, which reading strategies do you use?.....................................................................................................50

The individual participants’ responses toward their reading practice............................................................................................52

The high level participants ‘responses…………………………..52

The middle level participants’ responses…………………….….53

The advancing participants’ responses…………………...….….54



CHAPTER FIVECONCLUSIONS…………………….……………56

Pedagogical Implications………………………………..………..60

Limitations and Suggestions………………………………..……..61

REFERENCES………………………………………………………...62


Appendix……………………………………………………………….66

Appendix A……………………………………………………………..66

Appendix B……………………………………………………………..72

Appendix C……………………………………………………………..79

Appendix D……………………………………………………………..86

Appendix E……………………………………………………………..96

Appendix E……………………………………………………………108

Appendix G………………...…………………………………………109

Appendix H…………………………………………………………...110

Appendix I…………………………………………..………………...111

Appendix J…...……………………………………..………………...112

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102NPTT0238009
Date January 1900
Creators黃瑞棣, Huang, Ruei-Di
Contributors楊昕昕, Yang, Hsin-Hsin
Publisher國立屏東教育大學, 英語學系碩士班
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Language英文
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type碩士
Format113
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