Abstract
The purpose of this article is to emphasize the effect that the use of reading strategies can have on the improvement of foreign language reading skills. To indicate the effect of reading strategies on reading skills a study was carried out with university students, respectively eleven students of the second year and twelve students of the third year pursuing their English language studies at the University of Tirana. To this purpose, the students were introduced to different kinds of Reading texts and Close exercises in two different sessions. During the first session students were asked to do the exercises relying on their own knowledge about language and reading, and afterwards they were introduced to different kinds of reading strategies which they practiced for nearly a month. During the second session students were asked to do the new exercises based on the reading strategies they had learned. The results of the study pointed to a noticeable improvement of students’ reading skills once they had used reading strategies to do their exercises. As a conclusion, the article aims to point out that reading strategies are essential for the improvement of reading skills and they should be promoted in English language teaching.
Highlights
Reading is one of the four main skills that students of foreign languages need to master in order to successfully learn the language
Reading is one of the main activities of our everyday life as every one of us is engaged in reading in a way or another, be it just reading a newspaper article or taking a glimpse at the main headlines, reading a book or the label of a bottle of medicine
Due to the ever increasing importance of reading in every aspect of our everyday life, it is essential to find ways or methods to improve our reading skills. To this purpose a great emphasis is laid on the use of reading strategies as the best way so far to improve our reading skills
Summary
Reading is one of the four main skills that students of foreign languages need to master in order to successfully learn the language. The majority of studies on this subject have had as their focal point the method of teaching foreign language students to use a variety of reading strategies to improve their reading skills.
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