Importance Of Motivation In Reading

Motivation plays an important part in most areas of life, including education. It is especially essential in the area of reading. Classrooms are filled with students who never want to read and others who have a book tucked underneath their arms at all times. It is the goal of all educators to encourage those avid and reluctant readers alike to engage in reading activities at school and at home. The engaged reader is motivated, knowledgeable, strategic, and socially interactive (Gambrell, 1996). These are the some works which is done in past regarding the lack of motivation in english reading text.

 Eccles (1983)

 Ammann and Mittelsteadt (1987)

 Old father (1993)

 Gambrell (1996)

 Worthy, Moorman, and Turner (1999)

 Ivey and Broddus (2001)

 Partin and Hendricks (2002)

 Burlew, Gordon,

In particular, research has indicated that students’ motivation to read begins to decline in middle school therefore; educators need to make interesting reading material easily accessible to students.

AMMANN and MITTELSTEADT (1987): Ammann and Mittelsteadt (1987) describe a high school intervention program which used newspapers to motivate students to read. Evidence showed that this approach improved students’ reading habits and attitudes toward reading. In contrast, students felt negative toward traditional reading skills material.

OLD FATHER (1993):

Oldfather conducted research involving fifth and sixth grade students to discover what motivated them to read. Students emphasized the importance of free expression and a motivating teacher. “The most necessary attributes of a motivating teacher were caring, understanding, trusting, and respecting students’ ideas, opinions, and feelings” (p. 679). Students must feel ownership over their learning.

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