Impacts of Learning Reading Strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension Proficiency

In recent years, learning reading strategy has become an important factor in literacy education. Research has suggested that learning reading strategies can be taught to students whose foreign/second language is English. Although the study shows an improvement in the students’ reading comprehension proficiency and a positive reaction to the benefits of learning reading strategy. Learning reading strategy is one of the most important skills, receives the special focus on reading comprehension proficiency in foreign language learning. This paper will discuss whether “learning reading strategies” enhance students reading comprehension or not. This lack of good reading strategy skills is exacerbated by the central role of reading comprehension in education success. One solution to the problem of poor reading comprehension is the learning of reading strategy skills. This paper defines the key words, reading strategy process and reading comprehension proficiency, the relationship between learning reading strategies and reading comprehension. The findings indicated that reading strategies had a positive effect on the English reading comprehension proficiency.