READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES USED BY FIRST YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

Abstract

Like other language skills, reading is a crucial factor in foreign language acquisition. The ultimate goal of reading is comprehension and it allows students to make sense of what the text is about. This research is carried out to investigate reading comprehension strategies (RCS) used by first-year English majors at Thai Nguyen University of Education (TUE). The purposes of this research study are: a) to investigate into RCSs used by the first-year English-major students at TUE, b) to find out significant differences in the use of RCSs between more successful and less successful readers. This research is, therefore, aimed at helping students identify effective RCSs which may facilitate their reading comprehension. The implication of this study shows that good strategies of more successful readers can be shared by and provided for less successful ones to encourage them to study a foreign language effectively.