TAILIEUCHUNG - Reading comprehension strategies used by first year english majors at Thai Nguyen university of education

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. | Tạp chí Khoa học Ngôn ngữ và Văn hóa ISSN 2525-2674 Tập 1, Số 2, 2017 READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES USED BY FIRST YEAR ENGLISH MAJORS AT THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION Pham Thi Kieu Oanh* Thai Nguyen University Received: 17/10/2016; Revised: 16/12/2016; Accepted: 21/08/2017 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. Keywords: reading, reading comprehension, reading strategies 1. Introduction Researchers pay much attention to the topic of language learning strategies, which play an important part in developing foreign language skills. A learning strategy is “an attempt to develop linguistic and sociolinguistic competence in the target language to incorporate these into one’s inter-language competence” (Tarone, 1983, p. 67). There have been a variety of studies on learning strategies. Yet, there has not been any direct research investigating into reading comprehension strategies (RCS) at Thai Nguyen University of Education (TUE). Therefore, the researchers would investigate RCS used by the first-year English majors at TUE to fill this gap. Like other language skills, reading is .

• Ngôn ngữ học
• Reading comprehension strategies used
• Reading comprehension strategies
• Thai Nguyen university of education
• Foreign language acquisition
• English major students
• Reading text
• Language input
• Reading comprehension
• Exploring language input
• Reading texts