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№ Reading 
strategies
Interpretation 
1
Previewing
reviewing titles, section headings, and photo captions to get a 
sense of the structure and content of a reading selection;
2
Predicting
using knowledge of the subject matter to make predictions about 
content and vocabulary and check comprehension; using 
knowledge of the text type and purpose to make predictions about 
discourse structure; using knowledge about the author to make 
predictions about writing style, vocabulary, and content;
3
Skimming
using a quick survey of the text to get the main idea, identify text 
structure, confirm or question predictions;
4
Scanning
reading for a specific information;
5
Guessing from 
context
using prior knowledge of the subject and the ideas in the text as 
clues to the meanings of unknown words, instead of stopping to 
look them up;
6
Paraphrasing stopping at the end of a section to check comprehension by 
restating the information and ideas in the text.

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PHILOLOGY,  SOCIOLOGY AND CULTUROLOGY №14
ficulties in teaching reading to EFL stu-
dents due to the factors related with 
learners themselves. And the author sug-
gested employing different reading strate-
gies can enable learners to develop their 
reading skills and comprehend the text 
properly. As is mentioned in his work, 
teachers can overcome possible difficul-
ties in teaching reading when they teach 
students how to read using some reading 
strategies.
Sarasota (2001, p 11) also claimed that 
teachers can avoid possible difficulties by 
making or encouraging learners to use 
reading strategies and the author outlines 
some linguodidactic peculiarities and 
benefits of the use of reading strategies in 
the EFL classrooms as outlined below: a) 
reading makes more sense for struggling 
readers when strategies are used; b) good 
readers use strategies naturally; c) the use 
of strategies helps struggling readers to 
become proficient; d) strategies make 
reading more fun.
It is clear from the content of the table, 
students can use these strategies and 
avoid possible reading difficulties, and 
help teachers to overcome some possible 
difficulties faced by the EFL teacher and 
the EFL teachers can encourage their stu-
dents to use such strategies in reading 
lessons. Lets’ deal with them in detail:
By using previewing strategy, students 
can review titles, section headings, and 
photo captions to get a sense of the struc-
ture and content of a reading selection 
and in its own turn this can help students 
to know about the main idea, thesis, argu-
ment or focus of the text. As a result, it 
helps teachers to make learners under-
stand the main idea, topic of the text. 
And, by applying predicting strategy in 
reading classes students of academic ly-
ceum can use knowledge of the subject 
matter to make predictions about content 
and vocabulary and check comprehen-
sion; use knowledge of the text type and 
purpose to make predictions about dis-
course structure; use knowledge about the 
author to make predictions about writing 
style, vocabulary, and content. And in its 
own turn, this leads to the use previous 
knowledge about the topic given, students 
can predict the text, foresee the main idea 
of the text; what is about, what is the main 
idea of the text and others. By using skim-
ming technique, students can use a quick 
survey of the text to get the main idea, 
identify text structure, confirm or ques-
tion predictions. By using scanning, it can 
be said that students at academic lyceums 
can read for a specific idea or informa-
tion. It is clearly stated that by using 
guessing from context, students can use 
prior knowledge of the subject and the 
ideas in the text as clues to the meanings 
of unknown words, instead of stopping to 
look them up.
In conclusion, the learners’ inability to 
recognize letters, letter combinations, 
words and word combinations, phrases 
and sentences and the inability of learners 
to control or monitor their reading for 
comprehension can create main difficul-
ties and as a solution, it can be said that 
the use of reading strategies in the EFL 
classroom can contribute to the preven-
tion of difficulties appearing in the class-
room and help make the reading lesson 
more successful and effective.

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