南亚学报第二十六期 The Reading Strategies Used by EFL Technical Students.pdfVIP

南亞學報第二十六期 The Reading Strategies Used by EFL Technical Students THE READING STRATEGIES USED BY EFL TECHNICAL STUDENTS Shiu-chen Hsu Department of Applied Foreign Languages, Nanya Institute of Technology Abstract Reading is one of the most important skills to acquire knowledge in each discipline. In the information explosion times, good English reading ability is indispensable. The purpose of this study is to investigate what learning strategies are adopted by technical college students in English reading comprehension. The author find out the way of obtaining good reading proficiency, and this will provide the teachers and the students with a more effective teaching and studying method. The subjects were four-year technical college students in the Department of Applied Foreign Languages. Statistic analysis methods, such as descriptive statistics, T-test, analysis of variance, and Pearson product-moment correlation analysis were adopted. The author investigates the following problems concerning reading comprehension. (1) Do gender and reading proficiency play an important role in reading strategy use? (2) What strategies do students prefer during the process of learning? (3) What are the effective learning strategies in reading comprehension? Key words: English reading, reading strategy, technical student E-mail: schsu@.tw Tel: 03-4361070 Ext. 7607 Fax: 03-4650401 - 159 - 南亞學報第二十六期 The Reading Strategies Used by EFL Technical Students 技職學生英文閱讀策略使用之研究 許淑真 南亞技術學院應用外語系