4. Conclusion
An important goal of reading instruction is to help students to become strategic readers, in the sense that they
will be able to use effective reading strategies to gain better comprehension. The present research has revealed
that the students’ ability of grasping literal and inferential comprehension from given passages was significantly
enhanced through trainings in the use of reading strategies, including predicting, text mapping, and summarizing.
The effectiveness of these strategies has been found among Indonesian students of a vocational senior high
school learning English as a foreign language. Thus, reading strategies training should be incorporated into
regular reading instructions so that the students will acquire effective reading strategies to facilitate good
comprehension. In other words, in order to facilitate the reading comprehension of readers such strategies should
be incorporated within the normal syllabus and as part of the reading tasks and the teachers should be more
attentive to these strategies and try to overtly teach the readers how to apply such tricks in actual process of
reading.