Reading Strategies and Reading Motivation among Secondary Level of Students in Sarawak

Mary Anne Dison, Parilah Mohd Shah

language learners, reading motivation, reading strategies, secondary level.

This research was aimed to explore the reading strategies used in reading academic texts among secondary level of students, the motivations for reading among secondary level of students in learning English as well as to investigate whether is there a significant correlation between reading strategies and motivation for reading among secondary level of students. As students are facing various types of reading activities and reading materials in learning the language, reading strategies would be a great way of helping language learners to ease their understanding and facilitate them in learning the language better. Apart from that, motivation plays a vital role in stimulating the desire of language learners to learn. Therefore, this survey research design was employed by using the adapted questionnaire from Survey of Reading Strategies (Mokhtari and Ravi 2002) and Motivations for Reading Questionnaire (Wigfield and Guthrie 1997) as an instrument with the aim to identify reading strategies and reading motivation among secondary school students. This study involves convenience sampling of eighty-one (n=81) secondary school students consisting of lower and upper secondary level which comes from different divisions in Sarawak. The result revealed that students are aware of reading strategies and they have the practice of using varieties of strategies when reading English materials. The study also discovered positive relationship between reading strategies used by secondary level of students and the motivation for reading among secondary level of students.

https://doi.org/10.31871/IJNTR.6.11.25