Unpacking Vietnamese EFL Learners’ Deployment of Reading Test-Taking Strategies for the New TOEIC Test Format

Thao Quoc Tran and Tai Ngoc Nguyen

World Journal of English Language, 2023, vol. 13, issue 5, 101

Abstract: Test-taking strategy (TTS) plays a vital role in accomplishing the tests, and many types of tests require test-takers to use TTSs differently. TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), one of the standardized tests, features two main parts, viz. listening and reading, requesting test-takers to deploy their TTSs intensively to accomplish the test effectively. Reading TTSs are of importance for test-takers in responding to the reading content. Nevertheless, test-takers in different learning ecologies utilize reading TTSs dissimilarly. Therefore, this study was to examine reading TTSs for the new TOEIC new format utilized by EFL learners at a language center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This mixed-methods study employed two research instruments, namely questionnaire and semi-structured interview, for data collection. A cohort of 221 EFL learners was recruited to answer the questionnaires, and 25 of them were invited for semi-structured interviews. The SPSS software (version 26.0) was used to process the quantitative data gathered from the questionnaires, while the content analysis approach was utilized to analyse the qualitative data collected from the semi-structured interviews. The results revealed that research participants deployed the reading TTS for the new TOEIC test format at a high frequency. Additionally, participants were found to deploy the memory and compensatory strategies for TOEIC reading tests more frequently than cognitive, metacognitive, and affective ones. From the obtained findings, pedagogical implications are suggested to leverage the quality of reading teaching and learning in general and TOEIC training in specific.

Date: 2023
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