The Relationship of Korean Students’ Age and Years of English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL)

The purpose of the present cross-age study with South Korean students was to investigate the relationship of age and years of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) exposure with English reading ability. South Korean third-grade through university students who were studying EFL reported English exposure and completed a standardized English reading test which resulted in a reading ability score locating each individual’s EFL-reading ability on a continuous, developmental scale. A regression analysis revealed that age and English exposure interacted in relation to students’ reading ability. Description of the cross-age English reading levels was among the first to portray EFL-reading ability at multiple ages.