A Study of Thai Students’ EFL Reading Literacy

Abstract

What is EFL reading literacy? EFL reading literacy is defined as the ability to understand and use those written forms of English required by society and/or valued by the individuals whereas English is taught, learned, and used as a foreign language by the natives of that community. This ability was measured with two theoretical scales: the skill-oriented scale and the text-based scale. The skill-oriented scale consisted of six reading tasks as follows: