Reading Motivation and its Impact on Reading Proficiency of Engineering Students in Pandemic Covid 19
- April 23, 2022
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Education, IJRISS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue III, March 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186
Sri Endah Kusmartini
State Polytechnic of Sriwijaya, Palembang, Indonesia
Abstract: The unreadiness of the academic community in facing Covid 19 pandemic affects the process of teaching and learning in some ways. In this current research, the researcher wanted to explore the reading motivation and its impact on the reading proficiency of engineering students in pandemic Covid 19. The data regarding the Reading Motivation were collected by using the Adult Motivation for Reading Scale by Schutte and Malouff. The data regarding reading proficiency were collected through reading tests. The data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Coefficient Correlation, Linear Regression, and Compare Means. The result showed that the correlation between Reading Motivation and Reading Proficiency of the students was 0.606; the effect was 0.368 and the contribution was 36.8%. The reading motivation of the students affected the reading proficiency of the students significantly. There were significant mean differences in reading motivation on the basis of gender, residence, parents’ occupation, and age.
Key words: Reading Motivation, Reading Proficiency, Mean Difference
I. INTRODUCTION
Increasingly globalized world forces anyone who is engaged in science and technology to improve their knowledge and skills. To understand information related to science and technology, every student including engineering student needs English reading skill. It is because most of the information related to science and technology is written in English. Reading ability and proficiency for students is a must. For this reason, the students, including engineering students, must have good English reading skills. Unfortunately, the research conducted by Mohamed et.al. (2020) showed that English reading proficiency of undergraduate students of engineering is not high. One of the reasons is because most of them have tendency to avoid difficult word when reading.
The United Nations describes the Covid 19 pandemic as a major distraction nowadays, especially in the world of education (United Nations, 2020).
