L2 Reading Motivation Among Sri Lankan University Students
This study investigated the extent of the motivational processes that facilitated the text comprehension among 406 Sri Lankan university students in Sri Lanka. Students’ L2 text comprehension and reading motivation were assessed using a reading comprehension test and a reading
motivation and attitude questionnaire. The Principal Componential Analysis identified four constructs of intrinsic motivation and four constructs of extrinsic motivation. The relationship between these constructs and text comprehension was examined using the Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The
final model fitted the data well, indicating that only intrinsic motivational constructs positively contributed to text comprehension when associated with extrinsic motivation.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Department of Media Studies,University of Colombo, Sri Lanka 2: Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation,Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Publication date: 17 February 2016
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