PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Machová, Pavla
AU  - Vraštilová, Olga
TI  - Reading Literacy of Foreign Language Students Commencing Their Tertiary Studies
DP  - 2018 Jun 1
TA  - e-Pedagogium
PG  - 52--63
VI  - 18
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/epd.2018.019
IS  - 12137758
AB  - Reading is a receptive skill and together with listening it is the main source of information input. Effective mastery of reading skills thus gains more and more importance in the contemporary world deluged with information but also with the growing desire to reach the highest possible degree of education. Our experience is quite opposite though and due to it we designed a project evolving around reading competences of university applicants. It focuses on three areas: reading competence of students when commencing their tertiary studies, their reading experience since their early childhood and the requirements of the subjects and disciplines they should master during their tertiary studies. This article gives the framework of the project carried out at the Faculty of Education, University of Hradec Králové and it looks in detail into, describes and comments on the general vocabulary knowledge of the foreign language students when commencing their university studies.