The Importance of Teaching Reading Strategies in Reading Comprehension Process

The paper investigates the importance of teaching explicitly reading strategies to language learners to improve reading comprehension process. Unfortunately, in many language teaching programs, teaching language learning strategies is taken for granted. The importance of teaching language learning strategies is highly emphasized in many reading comprehension settings because in-depth reading comprehension is of high significance to derive information from academic texts. Improving effective reading comprehension is of significance especially in language-teaching curricula, in which reading comprehension is of essential importance. Therefore, the present article explores essential reading comprehension activities in terms of pre reading, reading, and post reading stages , each needs particular learning strategies to be taught by language teachers or worked by language learners through self-instruction activities. In this paper, relevant ideas and empirical studies teach reading strategies to accelerate and facilitate reading comprehension are also discussed.

کلیدواژه ها:

reading comprehension ، language learning strategies ، reading strategies in-depth reading comprehension