A Study On English Reading Strategies Used By Middle School Students

Reading is an essential skill for English as second/foreign language students. Reading is considered the most important subject in Chinese EFL teaching of middle school. More teaching periods are devoted to reading. The curriculum arrangement and textbook compilation are greatly concerned on reading. What should be thought about, however, is that although we spend more time and efforts on reading, the results of teaching are not satisfying. The main purpose of the present study is to explore learning strategies for reading used by Senior One high school EFL students, to examine the effect of the strategy training on English reading achievement and to find out how to carry out the strategy training...