Motivating Students to Read Extensively: Focus on Pleasure

This study investigates what a teacher of extensive reading can do to motivate learners to actually read extensively. The findings of extensive reading researchers in Japan will show factors that motivate students to read and factors that demotivate. Dörnyei's process model of motivation will be explained and applied to an extensive reading curriculum. Focusing on students' pleasure in reading will be suggested as an element in seeing students read large amounts of foreign language text