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Direct linkYa Nan Wang; Hui Min Low – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The expanding use of social media has the potential to enhance the quality of English as a foreign language (EFL) instruction and learning. The purpose of this online survey-based study was to investigate the mediating effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for reading English social media text among 348 Chinese undergraduate EFL learners.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students
Xingxing Xie; Hongxi Huang – Cogent Education, 2024
While previous research has reported that reading anxiety and motivations play crucial roles in the process of reading comprehension, their roles in online settings remain understudied. This study attempted to measure the role of motivations for online reading as a mediator role between reading anxiety and online reading comprehension in a sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Anxiety, Reading
Hong Li; Chuang Wang; Zhengdong Gan; Cathy Ka Weng Hoi – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Given the preeminent role of students' reading motivation in their academic success in reading, which determines the quality and intensity of cognition and behaviors, it is important to investigate the predicative effects of different aspects of reading motivation on students' learning strategies particularly in a foreign language learning context…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wang, 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
Han, Feifei – SAGE Open, 2021
This study explores the structure of motivation in foreign language (FL) reading among 186 university English language learners (ELLs) in China, and investigated the relations between motivation, strategy use, frequency, and proficiency in FL reading. The data were collected from three questionnaires and the reading section of a mock College…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Motivation, Reading Skills, Reading Habits
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
Zou, Di; Xie, Haoran – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Many studies have highlighted the importance of personalized learning, and most current e-learning systems are able to personalize materials, activities, etc., based on individualized learner-factors. However, none of the extant word-learning systems provides a personalized learning experience that is guided by a comprehensive word learning…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
