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Fostering Student's Motivation in Foreign Language Reading

For many students, reading is a very daunting task specifically when it is done for the specific purpose of foreign language reading. They believe that reading in a foreign language is a very challenging task and this was happening because of several reasons, including their inadequate knowledge of that certain language, their attitude toward reading itself and their styles as well as strategies in doing the reading assignment. However, those difficulties are not something that cannot be handled and will remain there permanently. As a matter of fact, it is something that definitely could be overcome by the students themselves with the help of their teacher. Teacher must be able to motivate and encourage their students to love and enjoy reading in a foreign language reading. In our opinion, there are a number of ways the teacher may use to boost their students interest in foreign language reading. Those ways are as follows; try to make the foreign language reading task as enjoyable and fun as possible, try to create in students' mind the believe that foreign language reading is an integral part of their study success, and make the foreign language reading class as effective as possible.