READING STRATEGY TAXONOMIES: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

The crucial importance of reading in any language has stimulated a noticeable growth in the number of studies on reading strategies used in second and foreign language reading to improve readers’ comprehension. This paper examined the classifications of reading strategies by providing a variety of reading strategy taxonomies by different authors. The comparisons of the most well-known reading strategy taxonomies by Oxford (1990) and three other best-known ones by O’Malley and Chamot (1990), Mokhtari and Sheorey (2002), and Oxford (2013) were also demonstrated clearly. Two questionnaires, one of which was modified by Nguyen (2016) from the one by Sheorey and Mokhtari (2002) were also presented as useful recommendations for researchers in the field. The results of the research offer a quite comprehensive insight into reading strategy taxonomies, which might be useful for researchers in the field of reading strategies in choosing an appropriate theoretical framework for their studies in the future.