The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of prediction strategy training on
English reading comprehension and the attitudes of Korean middle school students. The
participants were 41 middle school students, and they were divided into two groups: The
experimental group participated in explicit prediction strategy training, and the control group
received traditional teacher-centered reading instruction. The results of this study indicated that
there was no statistically significant difference in multiple-choice, post-test scores between the
two groups; however, the experimental group outperformed the control group in the
short-answer format in the post-test. Further, the experimental group exhibited significantly
more positive attitudes towards reading in three areas after they received the training. There
were, however, no statistical differences in attitudes towards reading between the two groups.