On average, the reading abilities of English-major students of
the Department of Western Languages, Faculty of Humanities,
Srinakharinwirot University were in the medium level. The result showed
that their skills in finding topics and main ideas were in the poor level,
their skills in finding details and references, vocabulary and purposes were
in the medium level, and their skill in finding meaning of the sentence was
in the good level. Therefore, their problems in reading English were finding
topics and main ideas.