• Dr. Samer M. Al-Zoubi

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• Dr. Mahmoud A. Al.Sobh

  Author

• Ruba A

  Author

• Abdel-Mohdi A

  Author

• Heba I.

  Author

This study aimed to identify the main strategies used by Ajloun National University
(ANU) students in English reading comprehension skills and to describe the strategies that the
students employed to cope with reading tasks. The participants were 20 English major students
from ANU. The researchers used a questionnaire to investigate the reading strategies used by
ANU students. Data analysis was performed with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
(SPSS).
The results showed that reading strategies (summarizing, reading for pleasure, using a
dictionary, distinguishing fact from opinion and understanding points of view) were the most
frequent reading strategies used by the students. Besides, the mean scores of females were
higher than males and the mean scores of first year students were higher than fourth year
students. Finally, the researchers recommended that teachers should take into consideration
their students learning strategies and try to recognize and identify these strategies in order to
support less successful students to achieve success and to use these reading strategies to help
them to improve their reading comprehension .Moreover, teachers should encourage students to
read more English magazines and newspapers and to listen more to recorded text to develop
their English language reading and pronunciation

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