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Hong Kong senior secondary students' reading motivation and classical Chinese reading comprehension

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Title:
Hong Kong senior secondary students' reading motivation and classical Chinese reading comprehension
Authors:
- Lau, Kit Ling The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Source:
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 32(4), 963-982, 2019
Publisher:
Springer Netherlands
Year Published:
2019
Education Categories:
- G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  - GA Chinese Language
    - GAD Teaching Methods of Reading Comprehension & Their Outcomes, Vocabulary Teaching
Keywords:
Classical Chinese Reading Reading Comprehension Reading Motivation
Region:
- Hong Kong
Period:
- 1997.7 onwards
Level:
- Secondary Education
Abstract:
This study investigated Hong Kong secondary students' Classical Chinese (CC) reading comprehension, reading motivation, and the effects of different types of motivation on CC reading. Four hundred forty-eight seniors from four secondary schools in Hong Kong voluntarily completed a CC reading comprehension test and a reading motivation questionnaire. Findings indicated that students' CC reading performance was unsatisfactory. They had poor self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation in CC reading and read CC texts mainly for extrinsic reasons. While high-achievers had better CC reading comprehension performance and higher extrinsic motivation than low-achievers, they had lower intrinsic motivation. Unlike many previous studies in which intrinsic motivation has been found to be the most optimal type of reading motivation, structural equation modeling indicated that only self-efficacy and extrinsic motivation were significant predictors of students' CC reading comprehension performance after controlling for achievement level. The relation between CC reading and different types of motivation is discussed in light of the special nature of CC and the learning context of Hong Kong.
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Language:
- English
Document Type:
Journal Articles
ISSN:
- 09224777
DOI:
- 10.1007/s11145-018-9897-7
Permalink:
https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/d0894507
Entry Date:
2020-06-08