An Investigation of EFL Students’ Extensive Reading Comprehension Strategies

Abstract

The present study investigated the extensive reading comprehension strategies Master two EFL learners employ when they read . A questionnaire is designed and administered to (150) Master two EFL students studying English at Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University of Jijel. The findings showed that Master two EFL students are aware of using reading comprehension strategies and the majority of them use the three reading strategies that were classified by Chamot and O’Malley (1990) including: cognitive, meta-cognitive and socio-affective strategies when reading. Furthermore, the results indicated that that cognitive reading strategies most frequently used by students are : using context clues,scanning,summarizing,translating and resourcing, the metacognitive reading strategies most frequently used are:attention-paying ,while the most socio-affective reading strategy frequently used is:anxiety-lowering