摘要：Subjects of this study on reading motivation were 300 2nd,4th,and 6th grade elementary school children. Instruments were the Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (Wigfield and Guthrie 1997;Kwun, 2002) and a School Reading Environment questionnaire developed by the researcher. Results showed that (1) the school reading environment (SRE) of 2nd graders was better than the SRE of 4th and 6th graders. (2) The reading motivation (RM) of 2nd graders was higher than the RM of 4th graders on external purposes;the RM of 4th graders was higher than 6th graders on slf-efficy and social interaction. (3) RM correlated positively with all aspects of SRE. (4) RM was affected by grade in school followed by school library environment and classtoom library environment..
关键词：motivation for reading;school reading environment;school Library;classroom Library
