Το αναγνωστικό κίνητρο των παιδιών: Διαστάσεις και σχέση με το φύλο, το κοινωνικο-οικονομικό επίπεδο και τη χώρα καταγωγής

Περίληψη

Reading motivation is the individual’s internal state which moves him/her to seek reading material, engage in reading, and persist in reading activity. This kind of motivation has been investigated less systematically than motivation in general. The aim of this empirical study was to examine reading motivation during the end of the school-age period. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 337 sixth-grade students from Athens and Piraeus. Their answers were analyzed on the basis of the reading motivation taxonomy suggested by Guthrie et al. (1996). Results indicated various dimensions of reading motivation, their frequency, the associations among them, and with gender, socio-economic status, and country of origin. Pedagogical implications are discussed.