Name: Truong Thi Men Class: DT13TAN01 Topic: A study on Scanning and Skimming Skills in IELTS Reading of second-year students at Quang Nam University I Rationale It goes without saying that English is very essential and has a lot of benefits in today’s society More and more Vietnamese people, special students study English so that they can not only access information and knowledge in the world, communicate with foreign, or have many employment opportunities but also go abroad to study However, if you want to study abroad, first of all, you will probably need to submit proof of your English language ability- IELTS or TOEFL (it’s depend on input conditions of your university or college you’ll study ) Therefore, to creat all chances for student to achieve target, teacher at QNU applied IELTs curriculum for student So what is IELTS? IELTS ( International English Language Testing System) is the world’s most popular English language proficiency test for higher education and global migration, and is designed to reflect how you will use English at study, at work, and at play, in your new life abroad IELTS assesses all of your English skills — reading, writing, listening and speaking IELTS is challenge process and requires us to study hardly It’s really not easy and it’s more difficult for second-year students at QNU – beginners All of skills – reading, writing, listening and speaking – have many difficulties but almost of the students usually meet more difficulties in Reading Because IELTS reading comprehension exercise is not for you to be awared of all the article content, writing style, the author implies IElLTS reading requires readers quickly grasp the reader to answer 40 questions in 60 minutes So if we have not advantaged all Reading skills for reading test special Scanning and Skimming Skills , we will be stressfull under time’s preasure and surely, you will get low score in Reading For that reasons, I decided to study on “ Scanning and Skimming Skills in IELTS Reading of second- year students at QNU “ I hope that my research paper will make a small contribution in exoerience learning IELTS Reading II Aims and Objectives of the study Aims of the study This study aims at investigating into the difficulties of learning IELTS Reading of second-year students at QNU , knowledge about Scanning and Skimming Skills in Reading , as well as solution to improve that skills Objectives the sudy The study is intend to: - Distinguish between Scanning Skill and Skimming Skill - To point out weekness of the students in finding answer quickly in Reading - To suggest solution for these proplems Research question a) What are the differences of Scanning Skill and Skimming Skill ? b) Why must we use Scanning and Skimming Skill in reading IELTS test? c) How we use skimming / scanning skill ? d) When we use skimming / scanning skill?