A Survey Study of Reading Motivation of EFL Undergraduate Students

Abstract

The objective of this study is to identify reading motivation of undergraduate university students. This study was conducted in one of private university at Yogyakarta, the participants were 51 respondents from freshmen undergraduate students batch 2019. The method used was quantitative research and the design survey study. This study used motivation reading questionnaire Guthrie and Wang (2004) as adopted by Komiyama (2013) contained 8 domains (curiosity 5, competition 8, involvement 5, challenge 6, recognition 7, compliance 5, grades 4, social sharing 4) 44 items. In this study, there are two domain in this questionnaire eight categories are identified. The findings show intrinsic motivation(involvement, preference of challenge, curiosity) has higher mean (M=.38.52 & SD 0.07) than extrinsic motivation (competition, compliance, grade, recognition, social sharing) mean (M= 25.75 and SD=0.11)