英文摘要 |
Among previous studies in reading strategies in the Japanese language, Minaminosono's (1997) points out that better readers, or learners who score higher than others in reading comprehension exams, employ fewer bottom-up strategies than top-down ones. Nevertheless, it is uncertain whether strong learners of the Japanese language in Taiwan also prefer top-down strategies, since a major part of them acquire their knowledge of the Japanese language from bottom-up trainings in vocabulary and grammar. Moreover, as we were able to observe in some elective lecture courses in second-language (L2) literature, learners having received training in top-down reading strategies may differ from those who have not. To our knowledge, no empirical study of similar settings is available in Taiwan to this date.In response, the study proposes experiments and surveys related to reading and test-taking strategies employed by L2 learners. The subjects are Japanese majors having taken a lecture course in Japanese literature for nearly one year in a university in Taiwan. |