Abstract: The primary focus of the present research study was to investigate reading difficulties of non-English majored students who are the second year students at two institutions of Thai Nguyen University namely Technology and Pedagogy university. The secondary aim of the study was to identify the main reading strategies utilized by these two groups of students. The findings show that both of the natural and social sciences students find that they are under time-pressure while doing reading tasks. They all have problems elaborating, inferring, predicting or summarizing while reading.