A Study of Chinese Non-English Major Students’ English Reading Strategies

Xinguang SHAO

Abstract


The study aims to investigate Chinese non-English major students’ use of English reading strategies with the help of questionnaires. The results show that these students don’t do well in using English reading strategies, especially metacognitive strategies and social strategies. Most students need to improve themselves in applying reading strategies in English learning. In English reading teaching, teachers should integrate the training of reading strategies into the classroom English teaching.


Keywords


Chinese Non-English major students; English reading strategies; Questionnaires; Training

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/n

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