The Impact of Motivation on Reading Comprehension
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in English Education - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Motivation is one of the important factors which impacts greatly on language learning. One of the most important factors which receives the special focus in foreign language teaching is reading motivation. More recently, studies on reading motivation have also gained much interest. This review paper is going to consider the impact of reading motivation on reading comprehension. In this paper, the researcher explains the terms reading motivation, different types of motivation, reading comprehension, and different models of reading comprehension. The review of this study showed that reading motivation had a considerably positive effect on reading comprehension activities.
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Mohammad Reza Ahmadi
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- DOI 10.18869/acadpub.ijree.2.1.1
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