Investigating Motivation for Reading Among First Year English Master Students at the University of Ghardaia

Abstract

The present dissertation aims at investigating reading motivation among first year Master’s students of English as a foreign language at the department of Letters and English language at the University of Ghardaia. In fact, those students do not read regularly, this might be due to their lack of motivation, which is one of the most widely common problems among EFL students. The study at hand aims at exploring this important issue. To this end, a sample of thirty-six Master students from a population of fifty-six were involved in this research. The data were collected using the MRQ questionnaire suggested by Wigfield and Guthrie (1997). The results showed that the majority of students participating in this research are moderately motivated for reading in English, and this was reflected in their answers.