publisherThis paper presents the results of an experiment which was carried out to investigate how the students' ability in reading comprehension in Japanese as a native language and that in English as a foreign language (EFL) are interrelated. Subjects, who consisted of 173 freshmen in college, were required to answer the comprehension tests in both Japanese and English, and the results obtained shows that there is no interrelation between the reading ability in English and Japanese.departmental bulletin pape
