An Investigation into the reading strategy use of EFL prep-class students

This study aims to reveal what kind of reading strategies are generally used by pre-intermediate level of students enrolled in the School of Foreign Languages, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University. Also, this study tries to find out whether there are gender and department differences among the participants. The population of this study consisted of 65 prep-class students. The data collected from the questionnaire was analyzed statistically. The results of the analysis indicated that students tend to report use of reading strategies with great frequency. However, these reading strategies do not differ in terms of their gender but their departments have an effect on the students' reading strategy use. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.