Abstract: The study tries to find the correlation between preferred reading strategies and language achievement of non-English majored students at two institutions at Thai Nguyen Universities; The International School and the Foreign Language Faculty. The participants are required to achieve IELTS 5.0-5.5 academic version for graduation. The study employs the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory, version 4.0 (MARSI) as a tool for data collection. The SPSS version 20.0 is used to analyze the data as well as to find out the preferred reading strategies of the students.