Gender differences in santri�s reading attitude and motivation

Nur Hidayanto Pancoro Setyo Putro,Banatul Murtafi'ah

doi:10.30659/e.5.2.251-262

Abstract

A considerable amount of studies has explored gender differences in reading attitude and motivation among students in both elementary and secondary school levels. However, none of them is concerned with English reading attitude and motivation among santri or students living at Islamic boarding school in which gender segregation is applied. This study attempts to investigate santri�s reading attitude and reading motivation based on their gender. Three hundred and nineteen students at pesantren-based senior high schools in Yogyakarta Special Region province participated in the study by completing both reading attitude questionnaires and motivational reading questionnaire (MRQ). The results showed that there were significant differences among female and male santris in terms of reading attitude and motivation. The independent sample t-test revealed that female students reported statistically significant higher attitude in both academic and recreational reading than male students. Similarly, female students also reported higher reading motivation in three dimensions of MRQ, i.e. reading involvement, importance of reading, and competition in reading than male student. Likewise, regression analysis showed that gender could predict santri�s reading attitude and motivation. This study, therefore, confirmed a consistent finding from the previous studies revealing that female students had higher reading attitude and motivation than male students.

Highlights

Reading is one of the prominent skills in the students’ learning development especially for English learning since it is useful for second language acquisition (Richards & Renandya, 2002; Krashen, 2004; Harmer, 2007)
All the analyses were conducted by using SPSS 23. This present study set out to investigate the difference between reading attitude and reading motivation among male and female santri
This section, discusses the results of the independent sample t-test to see the difference across gender and the results of regression analysis that shows whether gender could predict reading attitude and reading motivation factors

Summary

Introduction

Reading is one of the prominent skills in the students’ learning development especially for English learning since it is useful for second language acquisition (Richards & Renandya, 2002; Krashen, 2004; Harmer, 2007). In Indonesian education context, reading plays an important role as it becomes the main skill tested in national final examination other than listening. 70% of the final examination questions for English subject in senior high school level are reading comprehension questions (BSNP, 2017). Gender differences in santri’s reading attitude and motivation. Since final examination is so far the main measurement for the students’ achievement in English subject, research related to reading achievement is needed to conduct

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