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The motivation for reading English as second language among second year pre-university students in Lahore Pakistan

the journal is about the motivation for reading English as second language among second year pre-university students in Lahore Pakistan. Reading motivation can be defined as “an individual’s goals and beliefs” for reading. According to the article, there are 2 basic types of motivation of English language learning: integrative and instrumental motivation. Instrumental motivation is the motivation that they do something on purpose, while integrative motivation is they do it because they deserve to do it. In Lahore, the ability to read in English has a vital role in learning because the students have to accomplish their assignments on the basis of English reading. This research is quantitative and was conducted to determine the levels of Instrumental and Integrative motivation for reading. The participants are 40 male students of Government MAO College, Lahore (Pakistan). They were enrolled in English Reading Class. The Technique of Data Collection was questionnaire survey. There are 17 items questions to separate to the participant and 10 items reflecting instrumental motivation and the rest (7) items reflecting integrative motivation for reading English. The result of this study was the second year pre-university students in Lahore (Pakistan) have the high motivation level and strongly instrumentally motivated for reading English in their context.
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