A SURVEY ON TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH READING SKILL IN A HIGH-QUALITY CLASS

English Language Teaching and Learning

In the current context of global integration, mastering a common language for international communication has been of great importance to non-English speakers. In Vietnam, reading is perhaps the most used skill, which Vietnamese learners of English will be working with after leaving their colleges or universities. This is also true to the students from the high-quality class at Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration (TUEBA). It is necessary for them to read effectively and efficiently in English because they will be offered a lot of interesting information as well as a variety of language expressions and structures, which are very useful for developing their other skills. However, there are some limitations in the effectiveness of the teaching and learning reading skill. This problem perhaps is due to a certain number of internal and external factors. For this reason, the researchers intended to investigate the attitude of students towards teaching and learning reading skill, their difficulties in learning reading comprehension and types of strategies applied by teachers to teach students. Consequently, some implications to improve learning and teaching English reading skill to the students can be proposed. The data collection instruments are two sets of questionnaires for 39 first-year non-English majored students and lecturers of the high-quality class at TUEBA. The research findings indicate that non-English majored students faced both internal and external difficulties. Based on the study results, the researchers proposed some possible measures to handle such challenges for non-English majored students in the high-quality class at TUEBA.

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