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Han, Hee-Jung & Im, Byung-Bin. 2012. The effects of ‘Focus on Form’ instruction on high school students’ English reading comprehension. Journal of Linguistic Studies 17(2), 73-99. This study aims to examine the effects of ‘Focus on Form’ instruction on high school students’ English reading comprehension. For this purpose, experimental groups received ‘Focus on Form’ instruction and control groups meaning-oriented instruction, text interpretation and translation in English reading classes. The achievement of upper, middle and lower level sub-groups in the experimental groups were compared in order to determine how students’ reading achievement would be affected by ‘Focus on Form’ instruction. On the questionnaires, the students’ attitude toward studying English in the experimental groups changed more positively and most of the students said that ‘Focus of Form’ instruction was helpful in English reading comprehension. The experimental groups showed higher achievement than the control groups. Among upper, middle and lower sub-groups of the experimental groups, ‘Focus on Form’ instruction was more effective to middle-level students. In conclusion, to help high school students improve not only their fluency but also accuracy in English reading comprehension, teachers need to introduce ‘Focus on Form’ instruction appropriate to students’ reading levels.