The Correlation of EFL Graduate Students’ Strategies and Attitude Toward Reading English E-Journal Articles

Abstract

This study aimed at determining English as a foreign language (EFL) graduate students’ searching and reading strategies they actually use when reading English electronic journal articles (EEJAs) and their attitude toward reading EEJAs. A questionnaire survey was designed and administered to 342 Taiwanese graduate students from various majors across 15 universities. The results indicated that students have a medium usage of EEJA searching strategies (ESS), high usage of EEJA reading strategies (ERS), and a moderate to high level of EEJA reading attitude (ERA). MANOVA results showed significant interaction of reading ability and time spent online for academic purposes on both ESS and ERS. In addition, students’ belief was mostly correlated positively with their use of ESS and ERS, but students’ feeling was mostly negative correlated. Finally, the results of the structural equation modelling (SEM) validated that the structure of the three major variables and the connections with them were reasonable