Assessing Reading Strategies used by Teachers in EFL Class: Abeto Negase Kiristos Weredekal Secondary School in focu

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to assess reading strategies employed by the sample school classroom teachers. The study was conducted at Abeto Negase Kiristos Werede Kal secondary school of Meniz Mama District at Molale town.) These teachers were selected by using comprehensive sampling technique of non-probability because these all teachers were convenient to this study. To collect the necessary information from the participants, three data collection instruments such as questionnaire, classroom observation, and interview were used and descriptive survey research design was also applied. The findings showed that very limited reading strategies were employed by the teachers. As teachers attempted to explain many problems were challenged them regarding to the implementation of these reading strategies among these problems giving less attention for the reading lesson and using traditional way of teaching strategies were the first and foremost problems. Due to this fact to teach reading in this sample school, most of the time teachers in their actual classroom were using only very limited reading strategies such as reading aloud from the traditional reading strategies and summary and taking main idea of the text from the communicative reading strategies. This made students not to get more chances to use variety of reading strategies in their reading tasks. However, to improve students’ reading comprehension skill teachers should be committed to use the communicative language teaching strategies