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The purposes of this study are to examine the effects of learning strategies on L2 reading comprehension, and to find out the relevant strategies that students preferred. And also the correlation between the proficiency of L2 reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies and the correlation bet...

The purposes of this study are to examine the effects of learning strategies on L2 reading comprehension, and to find out the relevant strategies that students preferred. And also the correlation between the proficiency of L2 reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies and the correlation between the proficiency of L2 reading comprehension and the proficiency of L1 reading comprehension were studied. After training of various strategies to help L2 reading comprehension for six months in an hour three times a week, 6 subjects without comparative group take the test of L2 reading comprehension, L1 reading comprehension and survey of SILL(Strategy Inventory for Language Learning) to measure strategy use. The teacher collected data from the result of those test and impressions on strategy check list on SILL. As the results of analyzing the data, the following findings were obtained. first, the very frequent learning strategies that the subjects in elementary school students used is affective strategies. Second, the correlation between the proficiency of L2 reading comprehension and metacognitive strategies showed that they were less statistically correlated with each other. Third, the correlation between the proficiency of L2 reading comprehension and L1 reading comprehension showed that there were statistically significant effect. The result of this study lead to the following suggestions. First, as learning strategy contains properties of self directed learning, skilled teachers should help their students develop an awareness of learning strategies and enable them to use a wider range of appropriate strategies to improve their reading comprehension ability. Second, we need to develop teacher's guides that intrduce learning strategies for each lesson's objectives and the students' English proficiency and their learning styles. Third, as learning strategies in L1 and L2 can also enable students to become more independent, autonomous, lifelong learners, there should be more subjects in future researches.