Strategies for developing the reading skill through effective reading practices

This research paper mainly focuses on developing the reading skills of the third year students at the Computer University, Kalay, Burma. As reading is the most common skill, effective uses of practice reading strategies engage learners resulting in competence in fluency and meaningful depiction of literary texts. The knowledge of reading in a foreign language is important for the students to take the responsibilities for their own learning and to use the acquired reading strategies to tackle the various kinds of texts both inside and outside the class. In this paper, some various effective techniques are mentioned to improve the students’ abilities of reading. The important factors of the reading skills are showed to improve students’ reading speed and to catch the general meaning of the massage. Through needs analysis survey, needs, lacks, wants and attitudes of various students and teachers can be found out. It is hoped that this paper can give some insights into the difficulties faced by students and teachers who have no idea how to train students to be efficient and flexible readers and help the students make good use of their reading skill and how to handle it in the most effective way throughout their studies.