Examining the Motivation to Read and Its Relationship to Second Language Reading Proficiency in an Indonesian EFL Tertiary Context

The purpose of this research is to investigate and describe the intrinsic extrinsic motivations tertiary-level EFL students in Indonesia toward reading English. quantitative method was applied by asking majoring English at Brawijaya University fill out a questionnaire adapted from Wigfield Guthrie's Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (MRQ) (1997). administered 2018 generations 2020 generations. Besides that, students’ self-assessment value used measure proficiency. In addition, study also examined correlation between students' motivation their ability. data collected were analyzed using SPSS program with descriptive statistics answer question 1 Pearson analysis 2. results indicated that are relative highly motivated Meanwhile, found have significant negative reading. Based on these findings, lecturers expected increase read.