The Impact of Reading Strategy Use on EFL College Students
Ching-Ying Lin*, Yu Hung Pan
Citation : Ching-Ying Lin*, Yu Hung Pan, The Impact of Reading Strategy Use on EFL College Students International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature 2019;7(5):43-51 .
The purpose of this study was aimed to probe the question whether language reading strategies use among Taiwanese EFL College students differ according to different genders and the differences of frequency using types of reading strategies. The study focused on one hundred EFL college students coming from four colleges located in Taiwan. The findings showed that different types of EFL college students would choose different categories of reading strategies. In this study, the orders of the subjects used in English learning were Problem-solving strategy, Global strategy and Support strategy. Because of the different learning styles and learning skills, EFL college students would adopt different categories of reading strategies. In addition, all of the participants feel "Sentence structure" is the most reading difficulties in English. The result is the same as the order of the women's. However, men feel "reading material is too lengthy" is the most difficult. The study revealed all of the participants think "grammar" is the least difficult for reading English. Therefore, the result also indicated that the grammar knowledge is the best part for EFL college students in reading English. Pedagogical implications and some suggestions for further study are then supplies conclude in this research.