{"title":"THE RELATIONS AMONG MOTIVATION, THE AMOUNT OF OUT-OF-CLASS READING, AND ACHIEVEMENT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE READING.","authors":"Feifei Han","doi":"10.4067/s0718-48832019000100033","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"EnglishThis paper reports the results of a study on the relations among motivation, the amount of out-of-class reading, and achievement in foreign language reading among 322 English language learners in the Chinese tertiary setting. Motivation in English reading was measured by five scales representing intrinsic and extrinsic motivation components. The amount of out-of-class English reading consisted of academic and non-academic English reading. Achievement in English reading was tested by a reading section of a practice College English Test Band-4. The results showed that intrinsic motivation comprised of involvement and avoidance, and extrinsic motivation comprised of utility value, academic value, and recognition value. The path analysis, which examined the extent to which motivation and the amount of reading contributed to achievement in English reading, revealed that the amount of academic English reading was the only significant direct predictor to achievement in English reading, but intrinsic motivation indirectly contributed to achievement in English reading with the amount of academic English reading being a mediator. EnglishEste documento informa sobre un estudio sobre las relaciones entre la motivacion, la cantidad de lecturas extraescolares y los logros en lectura en idiomas extranjeros entre 322 estudiantes de ingles en un entorno terciario chino. La motivacion en la lectura en ingles se midio mediante cinco escalas que representan componentes de motivacion intrinseca y extrinseca. La cantidad de lecturas de ingles fuera de la clase consistio en lecturas academicas y no academicas de ingles. El logro en lectura en ingles fue probado por una seccion de lectura de una practica College English Test Band-4. Los resultados mostraron que la motivacion intrinseca comprendia la participacion y la evitacion, y la motivacion extrinseca comprendia el valor de utilidad, el valor academico y el valor de reconocimiento. El analisis de la trayectoria, que examino hasta que punto la motivacion y la cantidad de lectura contribuyeron al logro en la lectura en ingles, revelo que la cantidad de lectura academica en ingles fue el unico factor predictivo directo significativo para el logro en la lectura en ingles. Sin embargo, la motivacion intrinseca contribuyo indirectamente al logro en ingles con la cantidad de lectura academica en ingles como mediador.","PeriodicalId":35168,"journal":{"name":"RLA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"RLA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4067/s0718-48832019000100033","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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EnglishThis paper reports the results of a study on the relations among motivation, the amount of out-of-class reading, and achievement in foreign language reading among 322 English language learners in the Chinese tertiary setting. Motivation in English reading was measured by five scales representing intrinsic and extrinsic motivation components. The amount of out-of-class English reading consisted of academic and non-academic English reading. Achievement in English reading was tested by a reading section of a practice College English Test Band-4. The results showed that intrinsic motivation comprised of involvement and avoidance, and extrinsic motivation comprised of utility value, academic value, and recognition value. The path analysis, which examined the extent to which motivation and the amount of reading contributed to achievement in English reading, revealed that the amount of academic English reading was the only significant direct predictor to achievement in English reading, but intrinsic motivation indirectly contributed to achievement in English reading with the amount of academic English reading being a mediator. EnglishEste documento informa sobre un estudio sobre las relaciones entre la motivacion, la cantidad de lecturas extraescolares y los logros en lectura en idiomas extranjeros entre 322 estudiantes de ingles en un entorno terciario chino. La motivacion en la lectura en ingles se midio mediante cinco escalas que representan componentes de motivacion intrinseca y extrinseca. La cantidad de lecturas de ingles fuera de la clase consistio en lecturas academicas y no academicas de ingles. El logro en lectura en ingles fue probado por una seccion de lectura de una practica College English Test Band-4. Los resultados mostraron que la motivacion intrinseca comprendia la participacion y la evitacion, y la motivacion extrinseca comprendia el valor de utilidad, el valor academico y el valor de reconocimiento. El analisis de la trayectoria, que examino hasta que punto la motivacion y la cantidad de lectura contribuyeron al logro en la lectura en ingles, revelo que la cantidad de lectura academica en ingles fue el unico factor predictivo directo significativo para el logro en la lectura en ingles. Sin embargo, la motivacion intrinseca contribuyo indirectamente al logro en ingles con la cantidad de lectura academica en ingles como mediador.