Résumé:
The following study is meant to investigate a problem that may contribute and affect the
reading comprehension task of students of English. That problem is the misuse or the non-use
of reading strategies by students of English as a foreign language. Second year university
students of English at the level of Mila University Centre, have been our population of the
study. The hypothesis of this study is that Second Year Students of English are not aware of
the importance of using the right reading strategies while reading. In case it is true, those
students will certainly face problems in reading comprehension. In order to check whether
this hypothesis applies for second year university students of English, a questionnaire
containing 21questions has been delivered to a sample of 25 students. The data obtained from
that questionnaire demonstrates that the majority of students exhibit an unconscious
knowledge of reading strategies. Sometimes they use that knowledge optimally, but most of
the time they misuse it.
