Abstract
This study aims to investigate the use of Offline and Online reading strategies employed by engineering professionals from two different sectors: a government agency and a private company. It then compares and contrasts the online and offline reading strategies used by these engineers at the workplace. The need to equip students with the necessary language skills to be able to perform effectively and efficiently at the workplace is critical. The findings of this study will help to align the teaching of reading strategies and reading skills in the classroom with the needs at the workplace; specifically the engineering workplace. A questionnaire survey method is used to gather data in this study. The questionnaire taps three different types of information: global reading strategies, problem solving strategies and support strategies.
Highlights
Reading is an essential skill for learners of English to ensure success in learning
In response to the research question, whether there are acute differences in the online reading strategies and offline reading strategies used by engineering professionals according to the three categories, Global, Problem-solving and Support Strategies, the results indicated that there were no significant differences in the use of Global and Support Reading Strategies
The differences in the use of reading strategies used by engineers in a private company and that of a government agency sheds light on the reading behaviour of engineers in different organisations
Summary
Reading is an essential skill for learners of English to ensure success in learning. Learners of English tend to make greater progress in other areas of language learning. Reading should be an active, fluent process that involves the reader and the reading material in building meaning. The use of reading strategies can be observable behavior such as taking notes while reading to help comprehend the reading texts, reading aloud when the text becomes difficult, underlining or circling information in the text, and using reference materials; for example a dictionary to help understand the content in the text. The use of reading strategies can be unobservable mental processes, such as thinking about what one knows to help understand the content, critically analysing and evaluating the information presented in the text, and trying to guess what the content of the text is about when reading.
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