It is undeniable that reading skills play a crucial role in English learning and in expanding knowledge in general. The majority of EFL students find it hard to comprehend English texts during their learning process or when taking examinations. Reading strategies help learners comprehend English reading passages efficiently. | EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION Đào Thu Uyên Dương Phi Yến Phạm Phú Khải Trần Nhân Hậu Faculty of English Language Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology HUTECH Supervisor Tran Nhat San MA ABSTRACT It is undeniable that reading skills play a crucial role in English learning and in expanding knowledge in general. The majority of EFL students find it hard to comprehend English texts during their learning process or when taking examinations. Reading strategies help learners comprehend English reading passages efficiently. This paper aims to discuss the role of reading comprehension and provides some common reading strategies to improve EFL learners reading comprehension. Keywords EFL effective strategies reading comprehension. 1 INTRODUCTION English is one of the most popular languages in the world since it allows learners to communicate with a wider range of the world s population. Among different skills in this language reading is considered a challenging area for EFL learners. There are many difficult problems that learners may encounter such as issues with decoding poor comprehension and reading speed. As a result to read effectively and to understand more about what the author wants to impart in passages learners must have useful strategies while reading. Therefore applying effective reading strategies is essential in order to help EFL learners shorten reading time but still comprehend the text. 2 DEFINITION AND THEORIES OF READING COMPREHENSION Definition of Reading Comprehension According to Simon Rhinehart Howard and Cho 2010 reading is basic in all academic disciplines and comprehension is the process of eliciting and making meaning through interaction and involvement with written language. Karizak and Laleh 2016 stated that comprehension is a process in which readers make meaning by interacting with text through the combination of prior knowledge and previous experience information in the text and the views of readers related .
