Abstract
In order to understand the content of a text, together with the bottom-up processing which include sentence-level understanding, or understanding of the relationship between two sentences or two paragraphs, there is a need to use the knowledge of text structure and to understand the text in a top-down way. This research examines the process of reading texts in Japanese with the aim of understanding the content in the case of Chinese speakers learning Japanese at an advanced level, specifically what kind of strategies they use and what kind of difficulties they have. The results suggest that using strategies that focus on the structure of the text improves the quality of understanding.
