The significance of developing reading skills and the use

First Data Collection

Since reading is one of the difficult skills, many students could not show good result in the first given task. Though most students’ (in the groups) speaking and listening

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skills are fairly proficient in English, their reading results were not satisfying. To the group of 106 “How to be happy” reading task and the text “Happiness” for 101 group were given according to their levels. The given tasks were: recognizing words, filling gaps, true/false for the group of 101, recognizing words, multiple choice, true/false/not given and grouping words for 106 group.

Data Analysis

In order to analyze the data, I checked the students’ answers to the given tasks on reading and I calculated them as following:
Errors in percentages from 100%; Students from 101 group
Types of tasks:

Recognizing words	90%
filling gaps	90%
true/false	15%

Students from 106 group Types of tasks:

Recognizing words	50%
multiple choice	10%
true/false/not given	25%
grouping words	5%

From errors, it can be said that students from both groups made maximum mistakes in recognizing words (90%/50%) and minimum in true/false and grouping tasks (15%/10%). These errors appeared to be due to the lack of reading practice and the students’ insufficient vocabulary building to their required level. The good results of the students indicate that they had practices for reading exercises such as true/false and grouping words.