Uses student essays to examine the difficulties Taiwanese university freshmen have in their English reading. Discusses students' previous learning of English reading in secondary classrooms and its effect on present reading, and examines students' attitudes toward English speaking culture compared to their own Taiwanese culture. (Author/VWL)

Compares strategies used to infer the meanings of unknown words by three NNS readers--a good reader, an average reader, and a poor reader--from a series of six readings. The good reader uses a wider range of strategies than the weaker ones; all readers "read in" meanings from their own specialized subject (in this case chemistry). (15 references)…