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This paper aims to investigate the effect of topic familiarity enhancement strategies(i.e. text-based topic familiarity enhancement strategy, concept map-based topic familiarity enhancement strategy) on English reading comprehension as well as the relationship between English proficiency and topic familiarity enhancement strategies. A total of 177 college students who were divided into three groups(high, middle, low English proficiency groups) participated in the study and one-way ANOVA and two-way ANOVA were employed to analyze the collected data. The results showed that a concept map-based topic familiarity enhancement strategy had influence on English reading comprehension while a text-based one did not. Also, there were an interactional effect between topic familiarity enhancement strategies and English proficiency on English reading comprehension. Pedagogical implications and directions of further studies were presented.