A Survey on Non-English Majors' English Reading Strategies

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作者：
Huang, Lizhen [1 ]
Tang, Fang [1 ]
机构：
[1] Hainan Normal Univ, Sch Foreign Languages, Haikou 571158, Peoples R China
来源：
2011 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC, EDUCATION AND MANAGEMENT (ICEEM2011), VOL I | 2011年
关键词：
non-English majors; reading strategies; think-aloud;
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中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
The purpose of the study was to investigate college students' English reading strategies, reading difficulties and their strategies in answering reading comprehension questions. It conducted a minimal investigation of non-English majors' reading strategies utilizing think-aloud and simple interview. The results show that: 1) the testees have adopted thirteen reading strategies altogether; 2) reading difficulties are mainly caused by new words and complicated sentence structures; and 3) their strategies to answer questions are mainly as follows, using key words, scanning, selective attention; high-score students and low-score students take different strategies, high-score students being better at using the strategy of self-monitoring. Educators can utilize these findings to help students solve reading difficulties and teach them some useful some reading strategies.
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页码：340 / 343
页数：4
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