King Faisal University Name/Abrar S. Al-Zoubi College of Arts I.D. #: 212503192 Foreign Languages Dept.

Course name: Methodology Higher Studies Professor name: Dr. AlHibr Applied Linguistics Program Date: 27 / 4 / 2013 ********************************************************************

Reading Strategies

Reading is a complex skill that can be addressed using different strategies. Teachers must conduct a needs analysis of their students. This analysis will help teachers focus their attention on specific strategies because it is impossible to cover them all. Teachers should act as coaches who guide their students to become more strategic, active and ultimately, autonomous readers. To this end, they need to engage in a set of instruction process: explaining, modeling, monitoring, evaluating and revising. They should explain in an explicit way what strategies are and why, when and where the strategies should be used. 1). Vocabulary Development: I put this strategy first because it is a crucial component in acquiring reading comprehension skills. Successful vocabulary development ensures that students will develop met cognitive skills, which will assist them in comprehending advanced texts. Learners who havent acquired proper knowledge of the meaning of words, reading comprehension will prove difficult if not impossible. It helps learners develop the ability to read extensively, strategically and most importantly fluently. 2). Strategic Reading: It helps learners determining their purposes for each reading task. It enables them to use a variety of strategies and skills as they construct meaning rather than isolated strategies. They summarize, monitor, predict, generate questions & use graphic organizers as well as utilizing both their background knowledge and knowledge available in the text. they try to comprehend the text. Strategic reading accomplishes the goal of all reading instruction, which is helping learners to become expert readers so that they can achieve independence and use literacy for lifelong learning and enjoyment. 3). Integrated Skills Instruction: When teachers use other kinds of skills such as listening, writing or speaking together with reading, it becomes more beneficial and authentic for students because in real life, when we communicate, one skill often is not performed without any other. I t allows learners to develop their ability in the use of two or more of the four skills within real contexts and in a communicative framework. As mentioned by Hersan Z.M.: nowadays, communication is the major aim for learning a foreign language. In daily life, these skills are seen in integration, for example, after reading a letter, usually an answer to this letter is written. So in the classroom the activities should be taught in integration in order to arrive at ease in communication''.