A Reading Intervention for Thai Undergraduates

This paper reports on the quantitative elements of a larger research project which was an attempt to find solutions to the low levels of reading competence of undergraduates at King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB, Thailand). A strategies-based reading intervention was tested with participants from the above university. A control group received more traditional instruction, familiar in second language reading classes in Thailand. Results show a general improvement in the second language reading competence for the experimental cohort. Change in first language reading competence was also tested for, with mixed results.