| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東大學 === 英語學系碩士班 === 103 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the correlation between college students’ learning motivation and reading strategies that may affect their reading comprehension. In order to help English teachers in southern Taiwan, this study may help these teachers to understand students’ learning situations and obstacles that may affect their reading. This study explored college students’ reading problems that influenced their learning motivation and reading strategies in their reading process.
The participants of the study were twenty-four English-majored sophomores of National Pingtung University of Education. In the beginning and the end of the semester, participants were received the pre-study and post-study questionnaires, reading comprehension tests, and interviews during the semester. The researcher interviewed every participant based on the questionnaire results completed by themselves, and all interviews were audio-recorded. Finally, all of the data collected during the study were analyzed both qualitatively andquantitatively. The followings are the finding of the study:
1. There is correlation between students’ learning motivation and reading strategy.
2. There is correlation between students’ reading strategies and reading performance.
3. The most frequently reading strategies used by individual participants are
(1) I will catch the article’s theme, than read the content carefully.
(2) While reading, the pictures of context often show up in my mind
(3)I will ignore the unreadable parts, and figure out the whole content through the readable parts.
4. Individual participant’s response toward their reading practice belonged to positive attitude.
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