Abstract
<p>Reading comprehension is a significant skill that furthers the development of learners’ various academic tasks. It helps them decoding a text, analyzing, explaining, and expressing their own ideas about written materials. Learners should develop a strong ability to understand written materials to struggle with the academic tasks that their teachers deal with them. A primary objective of reading comprehension is to aid learners improve skills and comprehension of texts if they want to be skilled readers. In this review paper, the researchers define the term reading comprehension and reading strategies, elaborate previous findings about the relationship between reading strategies and reading comprehension skill, state factors affecting reading comprehension skill, explain the effective strategies for reading comprehension, and finally mention suggestions for improving reading comprehension skill. The findings of this review paper indicated that appropriate reading strategies play a vital role in improving EFL learners’ reading comprehension skill.</p>
Highlights
Reading is a significant skill that learners should know
According to Hollowell (2013), poor reading comprehension skill may be related to the medical difficulty that does not get addressed until the child is older
Teachers teach learners to predict, summarize, clarify, and ask questions for parts of a text. These strategies have been regarded as effective strategies for developing learners' reading comprehension skill
Summary
Reading is a significant skill that learners should know. Learners read texts for various goals from gaining information to enjoyment. Reading comprehension is a complex process that involves components, processes, and factors with the aim of finding better ways of improving it among learners. He continued that reading comprehension is an interactive process of finding meanings from a text (Meniado, 2016; Rumelhart, 1981). Koda (2007) said that there are various variables that impact learners’ reading comprehension Some of these variables involve vocabulary knowledge, prior knowledge, metacognitive information, and reading strategies. Trehearne and Doctorow (2005) expressed that there are other factors that affect learners’ reading comprehension skill. The researchers explain the term reading comprehension and reading strategies, review previous findings about the relationship between reading strategies and reading comprehension skill, express factors affecting reading comprehension skill, elaborate the effective strategies for reading comprehension, and offer suggestions for improving reading comprehension skill
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