THE EFFECT OF TEACHING PARAGRAPH WRITING RULES ON THE READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF IRANIAN EFL LEARNERS

Reading comprehension ability is a fundamental competency expected from students learning asecond language. Furthermore, it is suggested that L2 learners’ difficulties in reading skill may be due to lack of ability to write rather than difficulties in reading and syntax. Thus, the current research attempts to investigate whether asking teaching paragraph writing rules prior to reading comprehension will improve the quality of students’ comprehension. The participants were 60 Iranian secondary students studying in a school in Iran. The data were collected from 2 separate language institutes that were selected randomly. The findings from T-test showed that participants who received two weeks treatment demonstrated 23% improvement in their reading comprehension skill. Thus, the findings suggested thatteaching paragraph writing is supposed to be an effective technique in provoking students to comprehend more easily.