Reading Strategy Use of English Majors at Tay Do University

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Reading is one of the four most important skills of language learning, it helps us understand and grasp a variety of knowledge. This study aims to investigate the reading strategies of English majors at Tay Do University. Ten English majors from Tay Do University were randomly selected to participate in the study. Five open-ended questions were used as a tool for this survey to investigate the frequency with which students used reading strategies. The results of the study showed that reading strategies were important and offered many advantages to students' reading proficiency. Overall, they used all the strategies. However, the frequency as well as the number of strategies used by the students were quite different. Context-based word guessing and scanning were more widely used and understood by students than skimming strategies. This showed that the use of strategies in reading comprehension by the students of Tay Do University was very frequent. However, there were still some difficulties when using strategies, but it was not significant. From the findings of this study, some suggestions were made by the researcher to help teachers and students in teaching and learning reading comprehension in English for better results.

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