Application Of Reading Comprehension Strategies To Develop Learners’ Reading Comprehension Through The Use Of Literary Texts: Case Study 1st Year Efl Students At Abou- Bakr Belkaid Tlemcen

Résumé: Reading comprehension is an essential part for students in learning English as a foreign language. It is a high interactive process that takes place between a reader and a text to develop a level of understanding of a text/message; that accurse during and after reading a particular piece of writing. It is often presented in terms of a process(involving: decoding abilities visualization, and synthesize…etc.) which are reading comprehension strategies that EFL student relay on to have meaning of what they are reading. The processof reading comprehension can be affected by many factors such as weak decoding skills poor reading prosody and vocabulary. Reading materials introduced to the student may contains unfamiliar words which students do not have the mechanism of contextual guessingthat brings them to understand these words. The literacy level of the text may cause a challenge for students since the style of writing is lacking the simplicity that enables EFL first year students to decode the meaning. Language structure or grammar is also a major factor in reading comprehension, since the complexity of sentence structure can affect the meaning of the paragraph; consequently students will not be successful in knowing the general idea of the text.

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