A Study of Reading Strategies Used by Thai Civil Engineers in Reading English Safety Materials
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The purpose of this research study is to investigate the use of reading strategies in the reading of English safety materials by Thai civil engineers as well as to find out the relationship between the work experience of Thai civil engineers and their use of different types of reading strategies. The participants were 53 Thai civil engineers who had work experience of durations from 1 to 18 years. This study focused on the use of the Metacognitive Reading Strategies collected by using the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) of Mokhtari and Sheorey (2002). The result of the study reported that Thai civil engineers used a wide range of strategies but there was a preference for global reading strategies, followed by problem-solving strategies and support strategies, and also revealed the use of cognitive strategies, compensation strategies and social strategies in reading English safety materials. The results of this study also showed that there was no correlation between their use of strategies and their work experience.
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