Strategies Adopted by the Students of Grade Eleven to Develop Reading Skill

Abstract

The present study entitled "Strategies Adopted by the Students of Grade Eleven to Develop Reading Skill" is an attempt to find out the strategies of grade eleven students that they adopt to develop reading skill and also to compare the strategies adopted by the students. This is a survey research. In order to carry out this study, I have collected the data from eighty students of grade eleven studying in four different private colleges of Kathmandu district. I took twenty students from each four colleges. The tool of data collection was questionnaire having both closed ended and open ended questions. The findings of this study showed that 85 percent of the students set the purpose of reading before the actual reading starts and 43.75 percent of the students responded that they assessed whether the purpose they set before reading the text was met or not. This study is divided into four chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction which consists of reading skill, types of reading, its sub skills, materials for reading, ways of improving reading skill, reading strategies. Moreover, it consists of the objectives and significance of the study preceded by the review of related literature. Chapter two deals with the methodology adopted for the study. It consists of sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection, and limitations of the study. Chapter three includes analysis and interpretation of the data. The collected data were analysed and interpreted descriptively and comparatively using simple statistical tool. Chapter four consists of findings and recommendations where recommendations were given on the basis of findings.