Reading Motivation of Indonesian High School Students in English Reading Class: A Survey Study

Abstract

This research aims to explain reading motivation used by high school students. This study was conducted in one of the private schools at Medan. This design is a survey study, which is quantitative research. The primary data were obtained from classroom observation. The participants were 132 respondents from high school student batch 2023. This research adopted Wigfield and Guthrie (1997) as adapted by Schutte Malouff (2007). The instrument contained 21 items, including 2 domains: extrinsic motivation (recognition, performance, social, compliance, avoidance) and intrinsic motivation (curiosity, challenge, efficacy, involvement, importance), which are suitable to describe the motivation reading. The findings show intrinsic motivation with mean (M=3.39 & SD= 0.04) and extrinsic motivation mean (M= 3.22 & SD= 0.05). Therefore, schools need to provide or facilitate the reading program for students to increase their reading motivation.