A Correlational Study On Metacognitive Reading Strategies,Reading Motivation And English Reading Performance Of Senior High School Students

How to improve English reading performance is always a heated topic.Decades of researches proved that successful participants are active,motivated and self-regulated learners who understand and use literacy for a variety of purposes.This view has led to a number of studies that have investigated the roles of various metacognitive and motivational aspects of reading.However,some of the studies focus on two variation or under the ESL circumstances at home and abroad.The lack of researches among these three variations and the rare study on senior high school students at home motivated the writer to do researches to answer the following questions:1.What is the current status of metacognitive reading strategies used by senior high school students when reading English materials? And what is the current status of their reading motivation?2.Is there a correlation between metacognitive reading strategies and English reading performance?3.Is there a correlation between reading motivation and English reading performance?The subjects are 524 senior high school students of Gu'an in Hebei Province.They are in their third year at school and come from 22 classes.Questionnaires and an English test were employed in this research.SPSS software was used to make descriptive and correlational analyses of the data.The results are listed as follows:(1).Students' use of metacognitive reading strategies and their reading motivation are in the middle level.(2).Of the three dimensions of metacognitive reading strategies,the Problem-solving strategies(PROB)is the most frequently used.And there is a negative correlation between Support reading strategies(SUP)and English reading performance.(3).There is no significant correlation between reading motivation and English reading performance.After analyzing the statistics,the writer has some suggestions based on the findings and results.First,both teachers and students should pay attention to strategy training and the instruct for habits,which is good and important for learning process on the one hand and could help with teachers' personal career development on the other hand.Second,insist on using strategies would be good for students' performance.So other than strengthen the importance of final performance,teachers had better communicate with students and help them to develop their own personal learning styles and reading strategies.Third,teachers and students should have high motivation in reading.Tests are important,but we should not set reading aside.It is a lifelong career.