Adescriptive study of some problems that hinders students' reading comprehension

Abstract

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.