Extrinsic Reinforcement Analysis

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Later on, Flora (2004) argued persuasively that reading is not a natural behaviour; children develop this skill through active behaviour-environment interactions. This is why reinforcement (extrinsic rewards) is very vital in enhancing reading skills. “If reading and learning to read occur without obvious contrived reinforces, such as pizza or money, learning to read must have been reinforced, and reading must still be reinforced in some manner or else it would occur” (Flora, 2004, p.31). For the reason that they were not persuaded to the role of incentives in motivating students to read and in that strongly accord Kohn’s (1993) belief: Extrinsic rewards fail to produce lasting changes in behaviour, Edmunds and Bauserman (2006), to this end,