The Role of Motivation in ESP Reading Comprehension Test Performance
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of motivation in ESP reading comprehension tests at the university level in Iran. For the study, 245 students from different majors (literature, economics, medicine, electronics and chemical engineering) participated in the project. In addition t...
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Teaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI)
2009-11-01
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| description | The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of motivation in ESP reading comprehension tests at the university level in Iran. For the study, 245 students from different majors (literature, economics, medicine, electronics and chemical engineering) participated in the project. In addition to the motivation questionnaire, the participants in each major took a battery of reading comprehension tests related to their own content area knowledge, namely, majorspecific technical English (EST) tests. The obtained data were subjected to different statistical analyses. The findings revealed, First, that motivation is significantly related to the test performance of the participants, and second, the English literature major students had a higher motivation in test performance than those in other majors. The results have some implications for TEFL at the university level. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-82c9ad89b30d41518bc5a1bc6dacd2812022-12-22T02:09:18ZengTeaching English Language and Literature Society of Iran (TELLSI)Teaching English Language2538-54882538-547X2009-11-01329911510.22132/tel.2009.128684128684The Role of Motivation in ESP Reading Comprehension Test PerformanceMansoor Tavakoli0University of IsfahanThe purpose of this study was to investigate the role of motivation in ESP reading comprehension tests at the university level in Iran. For the study, 245 students from different majors (literature, economics, medicine, electronics and chemical engineering) participated in the project. In addition to the motivation questionnaire, the participants in each major took a battery of reading comprehension tests related to their own content area knowledge, namely, majorspecific technical English (EST) tests. The obtained data were subjected to different statistical analyses. The findings revealed, First, that motivation is significantly related to the test performance of the participants, and second, the English literature major students had a higher motivation in test performance than those in other majors. The results have some implications for TEFL at the university level.http://www.teljournal.org/article_128684_18b87dc168fe5a77d6adf37c9bb0f69d.pdfesp reading comprehensionspecific purpose testsmotivationtest performance |
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