After entering the workplace, Chinese students still face the need of English learning. They often need to read a large number of electronic or written English texts in their work, and these reading materials are quite different from the textbooks they come into contact with when they study English on campus. Therefore, they must adopt different ways and use different reading strategies to read these materials, so as to understand the materials and solve problems focus on purpose. In the 21st century, with the continuous development of network technology, a large number of electronic texts from the Internet have begun to be used in classroom teaching by English teachers in various countries. This study uses the multimedia and network teaching conditions of an adult university in Shanghai to carry out teaching experiments, trying to find out the use of reading strategies of Chinese Adult English learners in the network inquiry reading environment, and tries to provide useful enlightenment for improving their English reading ability.

Ganlin Xia. On the Application of Web-quest Mode in English Graduation Thesis Teaching. Frontiers in Educational Research (2020) Vol. 3 Issue 12: 94-103. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2020.031212.

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