Abstract:
students need to enhance their information, increase their vocabulary knowledge and develop other language skills. Reading plays an essential role in the process of language learning and teaching. It is the first skill that students should develop because it is considered as a main source for language input. Moreover, reading is one of the most challenging and difficult tasks that most of EFL learners’ face.Because of its complexity, students fail to achieve reading comprehension.
As a result, we wanted to conduct a research to see if the use of reading strategies like mind mapping and prediction while teaching reading would help in overcoming reading comprehension difficulties. In this research, assumptions state that the use of prediction and mind mapping reading strategies by third year middle school learners help them achieve reading comprehension,and that the use of reading strategies makes the learning process better.
To check validity of these assumptions, we prepared two questionnaires one for students and the other one for teachers in order to collect data about if teachers use reading strategies, and to see to what extent they are helpful.
By the end of this study, it can be said that the assumptions that were set before are confirmed and all the research questions are answered. The results show that reading is regarded among the first language skills that the learners need; however, many of them encounter many difficulties
The main factor behind learners’ low reading proficiency is the teaching methods followed by the teachers.
