Taiwanese Hospitality College Students' English Reading Strategies in English for Specific Purpose Courses

航空服務系學生於專業英語課程所閱讀策略應用之研究

徐立偉(Li-Wei Hsu)

《餐旅暨家政學刊》 5卷1期 (2008/05) Pp. 53-67

https://doi.org/10.6572/JHHE.5(1).4

摘要

Airline transportation industry is a highly internationalized business; hence, a good command in English is one of the minimum requirements for all the personnel. Reading ability has always been viewed as the foundation of other skills. This research is designed to investigate English reading strategies adopted by Airline Service major college students in Taiwan. Through this comparison and analyses, three research questions may be able to obtain the answers. These three questions are: (1) What type of reading strategies, top-down or bottom-up, do most airline service major college students use in English reading? (2) Is there any difference existed in terms of English reading strategies when they are in the ESP courses and general English courses? (3) What are the airline service major college students' common problems in reading for ESP courses? (4) How do the reading strategies affect their performance on the GEPT reading section? This study will be conducted in National Kaohsiung Hospitality College, Taiwan, and all the participants are airline service major college students. The 50 participants are asked to fill out the questionnaire and their answers to questions are analyzed statistically. The result of KS-test (Z=2.047; p=.000＜.05) confirms that Airline Service major students tend to use different reading strategies at different courses. While Pearson Product-moment correlation coefficient is administered, the results show that participants tend to use bottom-up reading strategy rather than top-down (γ=.901) when they need to read English. Furthermore, the more content schemata the participant uses in taking English reading test, the better performance he/she can achieve (γ=.874).

關鍵字

英語閱讀策略 ； 英語學習 ； 學習成果 ； 專業英語課程

並列摘要

Airline transportation industry is a highly internationalized business; hence, a good command in English is one of the minimum requirements for all the personnel. Reading ability has always been viewed as the foundation of other skills. This research is designed to investigate English reading strategies adopted by Airline Service major college students in Taiwan. Through this comparison and analyses, three research questions may be able to obtain the answers. These three questions are: (1) What type of reading strategies, top-down or bottom-up, do most airline service major college students use in English reading? (2) Is there any difference existed in terms of English reading strategies when they are in the ESP courses and general English courses? (3) What are the airline service major college students' common problems in reading for ESP courses? (4) How do the reading strategies affect their performance on the GEPT reading section? This study will be conducted in National Kaohsiung Hospitality College, Taiwan, and all the participants are airline service major college students. The 50 participants are asked to fill out the questionnaire and their answers to questions are analyzed statistically. The result of KS-test (Z=2.047; p=.000＜.05) confirms that Airline Service major students tend to use different reading strategies at different courses. While Pearson Product-moment correlation coefficient is administered, the results show that participants tend to use bottom-up reading strategy rather than top-down (γ=.901) when they need to read English. Furthermore, the more content schemata the participant uses in taking English reading test, the better performance he/she can achieve (γ=.874).

並列關鍵字

English reading strategy ； English learning ； learning results ； ESP

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