Promoting High School Boys' Reading Engagement and Motivation

Promoting high school boys’ reading engagement and motivation: the role of the school psychologist in real world research

Japanese high school students’ motivation for extensive L2 reading

To investigate factors that motivate Japanese high school students to read English extensively, I assessed 219 female high school students who participated in an extensive reading program for 1 academic year. The results showed that the 2 most influential factors were students’ intrinsic motivation for first language (L1) reading and second language (L2) reading. However, no positive relationsh...

Understanding boys ’ ( dis ) engagement with reading for pleasure Project findings

Running Head : MOTIVATION IN HIGH SCHOOL 1 A Person - Centered Investigation of Academic Motivation , Performance , and Engagement in a High School Setting

This study used a person-centered approach to identify naturally occurring combinations of intrinsic and extrinsic academic motives and their correlates. 1061 high school students completed measures of academic motivation, performance, and school engagement. Cluster analysis revealed four motivational profiles characterized by high levels of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations (high quanti...

Comprehension Strategy Instruction and Iranian High School EFL Learners' Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension

The present study was conducted to examine empirically and systematically the effect of explicit instruction of comprehension strategies on EFL learners’ reading anxiety and reading comprehension in Iranian high schools. To this end, two intact classes (65 students) participated in this study as members of control and experimental groups. The experimental group underwent 10 sessions of reading ...