The significance of developing reading skills and the use

Conclusion

In conclusion, teaching a foreign language to students reading skills has great impact as other skills such as listening, speaking and writing. Reading is about understanding written texts. It is a complex activity that involves both perception and thought. Readers typically make use of background knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, experience with text and other strategies to help them understand written text.

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To know about students' difficulties, mistakes in reading and how to correct them and how to teach reading I have analyzed reading skills of the first-year students of the International Programming faculty of Samarkand State University.

In order to examine the discourse I gave according to their levels different reading materials and tasks to two first-year groups of this faculty. Data analysis shows that the students’ ability of using their knowledge of language in reading is not satisfying. To improve their reading skills I would like to carry this research forward by teaching and testing the students by creating more friendly and productive in a stress-free environment, where students can feel themselves more confident and shure of their understanding of any reading texts.

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