Development of a teaching method and a supporting system for academic reading skills of engineering major students

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Engineering major students, are not good at reading English, are difficult to efficiently read papers in English. In our study, we have developed a teaching method and a supporting system to facilitate such students to improve their reading ability. The teaching method is based on“academic reading strategy,”in which skimming and scanning are used in order to read a paper in short time and efficiently. The method was executed in pilot experiment in which engineering major students participated in. The supporting system works on a tablet PC and facilitates leaning based on the strategy.