Improving Reading Skills Through Effective Reading Strategies

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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences · January 2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.01.113
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 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 70 ( 2013 ) 709 – 714 
1877-0428 
© 2012 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Selection and peer-review under responsibility of ALSC 2012
doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.01.113 
 
Akdeniz Language Studies Conference 2012 
Improving reading skills through effective reading 
strategies 
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Hacettepe University, Ankara, 06532, Turkey 
Abstract 
Researchers have found that teaching reading strategies is a key element in developing student comprehension. 
However, many teachers lack a solid foundation for teaching these reading comprehension strategies. 
Therefore, teachers need to be prepared on how to design effective comprehension strategies and how to teach 
these strategies to their students. Therefore this study aims to study the effective reading strategies in order to 
improve reading skills in language classes. The study is an action research applied to a number of 14 students 
in an intermediate level integrated skills course. The main question of the study is Would reading strategies 
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improvement to a great extend have been tutored about the reading strategies. 
2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of ALSC 2012 
Keywords:
Reading strategies; predicting; visualizing; inferring; making connections; questioning; action research