Exploring academic reading status and the challenges faced by graduate students of applied linguistics

Academic reading and writing abilities are prerequisites to success in postgraduate programs. These should be domains of competence particular for students applied linguistics, whose studies future performance as teachers require insight into these skills. A questionnaire was administered 194 students, who assessed their own academic In addition, open-ended questions added the interviews with 14 were analyzed, yielding eight identified challenges. The results revealed that information literacy weakest one. areas challenge included: shortage time, literacy, content knowledge, critical writers’ language style generic features texts, teachers’ high expectations vague instructions, insufficient statistical interaction peers.