Abstract
This paper considers methods for first- and third-grade KOSEN students with fundamental reading competence in response to our finding that some students have difficulty understanding textbooks and definitions on dictionaries. We used the Reading Skill Test (RST) to datermine students' reading competency. Students' results were relatively insufficient in some component skills such as paraphrasing, representing figures or tables with sentences, and instantiating with given definitions. In response, we aimed to develop effective methods from the view point of Development Education. Such students must acquire basic literacy to understand various types of documents and diverse topics in engineering. In our recent research, we have identified some potentially successful methods, such as precedent vocabulary test, reflection on lectures in Japanese to establish learning habits, and using figures and tables to comprehend English articles. In this paper, we report our recent practices.
