[[alternative]]On Reading Process: Strategies of American Students of Chinese In Taiwan

[[abstract]]The ultimate goals of this thesis are to investigate how American students of Chinese comprehend and authentic reading material via a think-aloud method, and to examine their most frequently used strategies. Approximate twelve students from the International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University were asked to participate in this experiment. They are further divided into two groups: intermediate and advanced; each group consisted of six subjects. To look into the nature of L2 learnters’ reading processes, their strategies were classified into two types: global and local. The results show that owing to the fact that only fewer subjects participated in this study, no significance was found between the two groups regarding the so-called most frequent used strategies in our quantiative study. However, our qualitative study shows there was a significant difference between the two groups. Five general characteristics were found in our sunjects’ think-aloud processes, which also corresponded to the linear develpoment of reading comprehension of English navtive speakers of Chinese. Finally, some pedagogical implications were given in this study. It is anticipated that teachers can help L2 students to improve their reading comprehension with the suggested strategies while they are reading, and to make their teaching become more effective in calss as well.