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Direct linkWang, Wenjiao; Gan, Zhengdong – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
This paper presents the development and validation of the reading motivation questionnaire in an English as a foreign language context (RMQ-EFL) with Chinese secondary students. Data were collected from a sample of 293 secondary students in grades 10-11. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses resulted in determination of five factors (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Reading Motivation, Questionnaires
Wang, Xiaocheng; Jin, Yuanying – Journal of Literacy Research, 2021
This study addressed the cross-cultural validation of the Chinese Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (CMRQ) in a sample of 522 seventh to ninth graders from two public schools in eastern China. Confirmatory factor analyses, item-total correlation analyses, and reliability analyses were conducted to assess the psychometric quality of the CMRQ.…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Questionnaires, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Li, Hong; Gan, Zhengdong; Leung, Shing On; An, Zhujun – SAGE Open, 2022
This study investigated the effect of explicit reading strategy instruction on reading comprehension, reading strategy use, reading motivation, and reading self-efficacy in Chinese university EFL learners. A total of 117 first-year university students were randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group. Students in the…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Download full textZhou, Ruiqi – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
Readers' reading purpose is of great significance to their use of text processing strategies, their achievement in recall and reading comprehension in L1 reading research. To test its role in EFL learning, the author conducted an experiment to 18 EFL Chinese learners of English. Think-aloud and written recall methods were adopted and the result…
Descriptors: Word Processing, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement
Law, Yin-kum – Research in Education, 2008
This study investigated how students' extrinsic motivation, home literacy and classroom instructional practices were related to the students' reading proficiency of 734 Chinese second-graders (48.2 per cent girls and 51.4 per cent boys) from twenty-two classes in seven primary schools in Hong Kong. The mean student age was 7.5 years. All…
Descriptors: Homework, Reading Comprehension, Incentives, Reading Motivation
Abadzi, Helen – 2003
Adult literacy program outcomes have been disappointing. A number of principals and methods from cognitive and neuropsychological research can be used to make literacy instruction more effective, including the following: improving cognitive function; fast reading; reading practice; literacy as a motivator; and improving use of class time.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Cost Effectiveness
