The 6th Journal Summary

Children motivation for reading

Children are categorized in two: motivated or not motivated. Children who are motivated had strong sense competence in reading. Especially when they keep persistent following activity which need skill and encounter the difficulties can master a skill. Aspects of motivation include intrinsic and extrinsic motives and value for learning. Intrinsic motivation is from self-interest, but extrinsic comes of circumstance. In studying children’s motivation for reading questionnaire Wigfield, Guthrie, and McGough created MRQ to predicting the possible amount of reading motivation dimensions. There are 11 possible dimension of reading motivation and developed 82 items measure constructed. They are predicting which of the most explicit identified different dimension of reading motivation and how those can related to children reading frequency. There are two of them: social reasons for reading and competition in Reading. In social activity, children enjoying reading with family and friends and become motivated. But in competition, they want to get good reading grades and appear to like challenging also variety reading topics. Motivation for reading are related to reading frequencies, however the more intrinsic reasons can effected children’s sense that they read efficaciously were the strongest correlates to the reading frequency.

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Children's motivations for reading
Metsala, Jamie L;Wigfield, Allan;McCann, Ann Dacey
The Reading Teacher; Dec 1996/Jan 1997; 50, 4; Arts & Humanities Database

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