Students’ Perceptions towards the Effects of Reading Strategies on Comprehension.

Abstract

Foreign language students tend to use any possible means through their reading process to gain more information and easily understand the reading material at hand. The present study then aims at investigating Master I students’ perceptions towards the effects of using reading strategies on their text- reading comprehension. It takes the case of master one students of the English Department at Guelma University; to check the validity of the research hypotheses, which state that students’ use of reading strategies may positively affect their reading comprehension. In addition, their reading comprehension ability will be facilitated. Therefore, two questionnaires were administered to both teachers and case study sample students; as data collection tools to determine the effects of using reading strategies on students’ reading comprehension; as well as students’ perceptions towards using these strategies. The collected data were described, analyzed, and discussed using the Descriptive Statistical Method. The results then revealed that the sample students show a significant awareness towards the crucial effects reading strategies have on improving their text-reading comprehension abilities as well as on other language skills. Thus, the results confirmed the research hypotheses. As a result, the most important field investigation results were transformed into useful pedagogical implications for an effective EFL reading skill comprehension teaching and learning. In addition to some recommendations to be considered in future researches.