Abstract:Since the end of 1970s, the researches of reading strategy have become hot issues，and most experts and learners have contributed their time and energy to research it. Reading strategies are defined by some specialists as mental operations relating to how readers perceive a task, what textual cues they attend to, how they make sense of what they read, and what they do when they do not understand In fact, reading strategy is to use some strategies when you make some specific reading tasks. It includes a series of cognitive psychological activity，and the effective use of reading strategy will definitely enhance the students’ reading efficiency .

This study aims to research the situation of non-English majors’ English reading strategies use and put forward some practicable suggestions to help students learn English. 

The results of the study indicate that the situation of non-English majors’ English reading strategies use is of middle level. In all reading strategies, the use of metacognitive strategy is weak. The results show that the students with high scores have obviously higher frequency of strategy use than the ones with low scores，especially in metacognitive strategy use. The difference of Region and nationality has not prominent effect for reading strategies use.

Key words:  Non –English majors; reading strategies; metacognitive strategies; cognitive strategies; survey

摘要:自70年代末，阅读策略研究开始成为研究的热点以来，学者和专家进行了广泛的研究。它被定义为学习者怎么样感知一个任务、怎么样处理背景线索和知识、怎么样理解他们读的材料和当他们不理解时如何做的心理过程。事实上，阅读策略是指应用于特定阅读任务采用的策略，有效使用阅读策略有助于英语阅读能力的提高。

本研究的目的是调查非英语专业的阅读策略使用的情况，并给予一些建议，从而帮助学生们学习英语。

调查结果表明非英语专业学生阅读策略使用的情况为中等。在所有阅读策略中，元认知策略使用较为薄弱。独立样本表明成绩高的学生使用策略频率显著高于成绩低的同学；而地区与民族的差异对于策略使用没有显著的影响。

关键词   非英语专业 ；英语阅读策略；元认知策略；认知策略；调查