The Effective Use of Strategies in Purposeful Reading

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to find out whether EFL learners use reading strategies or not when they interact with reading English texts in academic contexts. The study tackles the types of reading strategies used and how often readers use such strategies. The research also examines types of strategies available and tries to check if some of them are useless to readers. However, the main core of this paper is to carry out a test in which the significant differences between Turkish and Iraqi students in the use of reading strategies are explored.
        The study is conducted with a total of 40 EFL learners at Hacettepe University in Turkey, and Cihan University in Kurdistan Region-Iraq. The study centers around a tested questionnaire that consists of 20 items used as a data collection instrument.