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Prospective ELT students’ foreign language reading attitudes and

                                                   motivation                     

The findings of this study show positive attitudes and motivation attribute to the process of self-development of prospective ELT students. Therefore, the practitioners in the field of second language acquisition may lead their students to set some certain goals to improve their reading skill in a foreign language. Teachers might utilize some reading materials from different subject areas to enable students to do more extensive reading. Thus, they can attempt to stimulate their students’ intrinsic motivation more frequently. Finally, the practitioners in the field of second language acquisition can build in some fun and pleasure through/with authentic reading texts in the classroom environment.The present study investigated attitudes and motivation of prospective ELT students to read in a foreign language. The findings support the existence of reading motivation in FL/L2 reading based on four main factors. The results suggest that students have positive attitudes and motivation in foreign language reading correlating with their academic achievement (GPA) without any gender difference.