An Action Inquiry to Improving Taiwanese EFL Students’ Reading Habits

Action research is a form of collective inquiry involving self-reflective concepts that participants in social situations undertake to improve the following: (1) the rationale and justice of their own social or educational practices; (2) the participants’ understanding of these practices within the situations in which they carry out these practices. As a result of highlighting change, people change. This creates a new reformed situation. The purpose of this study is to work with a small group of students in a business college in northern Taiwan, in order to foster their reading habits. This study contains the following steps: initiation, preliminary investigation, intervention, and evaluation. The approaches involved entail carrying out a student email questionnaire and online interviews. Overall, the results of this action inquiry were very encouraging. The evidences show that the participants enjoy extensive reading, and are well aware that the more they read the better readers they will become. Within this study, one of the participants encountered a little difficulty whilst reading extensively. However, the overall willingness to keep this reading habit was favoured unanimously within the selected group of students.