本研究探討成人讀者的英文繪本閤讀策略，三位高閤讀能力及三位低閤讀能力的成人讀者閤讀英語繪本，繪本內容是適合中階讀者關於糊塗女傭的相關語趣事，成人讀者必須在閤讀過程中說出他們的思考内容，閤讀後作ー份理解測験。研究結果發現如下，當沒遇到困難時，高低能力讀者都傾向使用”試譯”的閤讀策略，當遇到困難時，高能力讀者鲁使用各種不同的閤讀策略去克服；而低能力讀者傾向使用局部性策略的使用，此外，高閤讀能力者運用較多次數與較多種類的閤讀策略，低能力讀者因爲語言能力不足，無法有效的運用閤讀策略。

The purpose of the present study is to investigate adults’ strategy use in reading picture books. Three proficient and three less proficient adults were asked to read picture books about a literal-minded housekeeper with an interesting plot and language play for the developing readers. The participants were required to verbalize their on-going thoughts while reading the passages. Before, think-aloud, the participants also took a comprehension test. An analysis of the think-aloud protocols and comprehension scores reveal that 17 types of strategies were collected from the participants and the most frequently used strategy for both groups was paragraph. When experiencing difficulty, proficient readers used a variety of strategies to cope with their problems, whereas less proficient readers used word-level cues and focused on the decoding part of reading. Besides, proficient readers utilized more types of strategies more frequently while less proricient readers utilized fewer types of strategies due to the inhib