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Reading is a receptive language process. It is the processof recognition,interpretation, and perception of written or printed materials. Reading proficiency plays a great role in understanding a written statementaccurately and efficiently. Reading serves as an important tool inevery field of professional service( Abdul Halim,2006).In English foreign language teaching, reading is one of the most importantfactors in assessing a learner’s linguistic competence. However, it is acommon problem for some students to complain about having trouble withhow to read efficiently. Students always feel confused about the main ideaof the passage even if they can get a full mark to the questions followingthe passage. In addition , some teachers also find difficulties in increasingefficiency in reading classes. So, therefore some of approches for teachingreading that teacher has to follow them and some of reading techinques .However, due to many such reasons the students fail to comprehendtextbooks properly. This is largely reflected in the poor performance of the
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students both in their classes, as well as in their everyday life.So, it isimportant now to point out the problems existing in the present readingleearning and provide some proposals for how to teach reading efficiently.Indeed , the teaching of reading has been an essential part of learning alanguage ever since foreign language began to be taught ( Kelly,1969).Jiao (2007) discusses that reading teaching becomes teaching of language points known as grammar and vocabulary. This kind of Englishreading teaching to a great extent hinders EFL students’ language proficiency.Reading helps in mental development and is known to stimulate themuscles of the eyes. Reading is an activity that involves greater levels of concentration and adds to the conversational skills of the reader. It is anindulgence that enhances the knowledge acquired, consistently. The habitof reading also helps readers to decipher new words and phrases that theycome across in everyday conversations (
Grellet ,2001)
Douglas(2001 ) discusses that Students should be trained to be flexiblein reading by using different kinds of exercises such scanning , skimming,and critical reading.
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hi....could you pls send me this book of yours "Teaching REading Skills". I am inot reading instructions.This will help me alot. sammysean2000@yahoo.com my email add. Thanks alot.