IMPROVING READING SKILLS FOR SECOND-YEAR ENGLISH MAJOR STUDENTS AT DONG THAP UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Researchers have found that teaching reading strategies is the key element in developing student’s comprehension. Learning reading skill plays a vital role to English major students at Dong Thap
University since it has been one of the compulsory requirements for them to get graduation certificate.
The study is an action research applied to a number of 20 students in an intermediate level intergrated
skills course (including 5 ethnic minority students). The main questions of the study are what difficulties
students have in learning reading skills? And what strategies should be applied to improve this skill? The
results of the study indicate that student encoutered many problems in studying reading skills like lack
of knowledge and practice in reading strategies and some solutions have been proposed such as COR
Framework and Reading Comprehension Framework.