Experimental research of motivational and reflexive components of students’ reading culture

Abstract

The purpose is to analyze the state of studying the problem of students' reading culture development using psychological, philological, pedagogical, sociocultural, and communicative approaches and to present the results of diagnostics of the real state of its structural components. Interdisciplinary analysis of psychological, pedagogical, methodical, culturological, and linguistic literature, study of normative documents of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, conceptual and terminological analysis of basic definitions of the research, system analysis, pedagogical observation, pedagogical experiment, and student questionnaires. The authors defined structural components of students’ reading culture. The motivation and reflexive activity were defined as the components of the students' reading culture. To determine the expressiveness of these qualities, we used methodology of determining the level of reflexivity, as well as diagnostics of the motivational structure of personality. The 1st and 3rd year students specializing in Pedagogy and Psychology (5B010300) at the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University (Almaty city) took part in the experiment. The results of the experiment showed that the motivation for reading literature among students is below average. The levels of reflexivity for activities are high. The conducted content analysis of the category of reading culture substantiated its essence.