本研究s的在探討閱讀與其要素一音韻、字義、句法、與速度一之間相互的關係。受試 者為54名就讀北台灣一私立大學、已參加過多益英語檢定考之學生。此四種閱讀要索之測試 方法分別為音韻覺識與快速命名、字彙測驗、及線上語法測驗；語法測驗之同時，受試者之 閱讀速度同時被記錄下來。相關統計結果顯示以上所有的測試皆與閱讀成績有屮度到高度的 正相關性，此一結果表示受試者多益的閱讀成績越高，在閱讀要素的測驗上表現就越好。命 名速度與語法測驗阅讀速度則是與閱讀成績成反比，表示其閱讀成績越高，他們命名與閱讀 句/•的時間就越短。此外，回歸統計結来顯示字彙是預測這些大學生閱讀成績最有效之要素， 語法正確為第二個有效預測耍素。令人意外的是，音韻覺識為第三個有效預測要素。道些結 果顯示在大學英語教學中，字窠與語法固為二個須被加強的領域；似是，音韻覺識卻是另一 個不容忽視的閱讀要素。

The present study examined the relationships between English reading comprehension and its component constructs phonological processing, semantic knowledge, syntactic processing, and reading rates among university learners. A total of 54 university students who had taken TOBIC were recruited from a private university in northern Taiwan. With regard to the components, phonological processing was measured by phonological awareness and rapid digit naming, semantic knowledge by a vocabulary size test, and syntactic processing by an online grammaticality task where accuracy and reading rates were simultancously recorded. Pearson's correlations show that all the experimental measures were correlated moderately to highly with their TOBIC reading scores, suggesting a positive pattern that the higher the participants' reading comprehension scores, the better their performance on the reading-related measures. But both speeds of rapid digit naming and syntactic processing were negatively correlated with reading comprehension, indicating that the better their reading comprehen-sion, the shorter they spent on digit naming and sentence reading. Furthermore, regression analyses indicate that vocabulary was the strongest predictor of the adult learners' reading comprehension and that syntactic knowledge came in second. Surprisingly, phonological awareness was the third valid predictor of these EFL adult learners' reading comprehension. The findings altogether suggest that vocabulary and syntactic knowledge are two aspects that should be emphasized and that phonological awareness is another aspect that should not be neglected for reading success in English at the te yary level.