Behnaz Behdani - Instructor of English Language, Department of Foreign Languages, Farhangian university of Birjand

This study aimed at exploring the reading strategies of Iranian English major university students in the group learning mode. Thirty male and female undergraduate students, all majoring in English at BirjandUniversity participated in the study. The Survey of Reading Strategies (Mokhtari and Sheorey, 2002) wasadapted for this work. This survey classifies reading strategies into three categories: global, problemsolving, and support strategies. The results of the adapted questionnaire showed that the students used the three categories at a high to moderate frequency level, with preference for problem-solving strategies followed by global and support strategies. In fact, the overall use of reading strategies was moderate

Reading Strategy, Reading comprehension, Group learning, English Major Students