학문 목적 한국어 학습자의 읽기 동기 구성 요인 연구

The study on reading motivations of KAP students’ reading activity

Present study aims to examine the components which construct motivations of KAP learners for their reading activity. For this study, totally 196 responses for the questionnaire from Korean learners in country (Korea) or overseas were collected and analyzed. The result reveals that their major reading motivators can be summarized as ‘self-efficacy or utility value’, ‘competition-reward’, ‘integrated motivation’ and ‘academic performance’. 196 subjects for this study can be divided by 4 sub-groups, and each group shows its different dominant reading motivators. Overall, the group in country indicates relatively higher motivation level than overseas group. In both groups, ‘competition-reward’ was the highest reading motivator and ‘integrated motivators’ and ‘academic performance’was relatively lower than other motivating components. It implies that even adult learners tend to prefer immediate reward such as compliments from others to internal reward or academic grade. Overseas group is classified into advanced group before college entrance, undergraduate and graduate group. The learners in undergraduate group demonstrate higher motivation in general. This study encompasses numerous leaners invarious settings as subject who can represent current state of KAP learning environments. The study on reading motivator of KFL learners has been scarce. In particular, there has been little quantitative research with the extensive subjects investigating various components which consist of learner motivation regarding reading activity. In this regard, present study might contribute to fill the gap.