The Impact of Short Stories as an Extrinsic Reward in an Intensive Reading Environment on Learners’ Intrinsic Motivation

The present paper is pertinent to examine the long-term impact of short stories as an extrinsicreward in an intensive reading environment on learners’ intrinsic motivation, as assessed by indicators of self-reported interest. a total sample of 91 lmd students enrolled in the second year, at the department of letters and english language-university of constantine1-was allocated to twoexperimental conditions, namely the no-reward and reward condition. the major findingssubstantiated that there was a statistically significant difference between the two experimentalconditions, indicating that short stories were good incentive to enhance adult students’ intrinsicmotivation in intensive reading activities.