关于英语专业学生英语阅读动机的实证研究

摘要

With a questionnaire as the main instrument and interviews to supplement the findings this research was carried out among a group of 320 English majors from three different universities to examine the English reading motivations of Chinese English majors. The results revealed that 1 English majors′reading motivation was indeed multifaceted with 12 factors identified including Reading Efficacy Social Reasons Reading Curiosity Reading Recognition⁃Competition Reading Involvement Reading Work Avoidance Integrativeness Reading Material Reading Compliance Reading for Grades Reading Challenge and Importance of Reading 2 English majors are generally highly motivated and they read more for intrinsic motiva⁃tions than extrinsic motivations 3 English proficiency and learning attitude will both influence reading motivation.%以调查问卷为主要研究方法，采访为辅助手段，对来自3所高校的320名英语专业学生的英语阅读动机进行了深入剖析。研究显示：（1）英语专业学生的阅读动机呈现多层面特征，它包括12个因子：阅读效能、社会原因、阅读好奇、阅读认同—竞争、阅读参与、阅读回避、融入型阅读、阅读材料、顺从性阅读、阅读成绩、阅读挑战和阅读的重要性；（2）英语专业的学生总体上阅读动机较高，内在动机强于外在动机；（3）英语水平和学习态度共同作用于英语阅读动机。