This chapter presents a brief summary of the study, its objectives, methodology and
findings. It also discusses the implication of the findings and makes some
recommendation in the light of the findings for improving the state of the teaching
and learning of reading skills in Bangladesh.
The objectives of the study have been to examine students’ problems in reading
skills, the present state of reading pedagogy, strength and weaknesses of the reading
components of the existing syllabus and reading materials used at the H.S.C levels in
Bangladesh. For field data on these areas, empirical investigations were conducted in
several government and non-government colleges of both urban and rural areas.
The methods for investigation included questionnaire survey, interview, classroom
observation, reading tests and evaluation of syllabus, materials and tests currently
used in the country.
The study includes a detailed literature review that defines reading processes,
discusses sub-skills of reading and recent approaches to the teaching and learning of
reading and then examines whether the recent approaches are used in the country or
not.
The results show that students have problems in most of the sub-skills of reading,
and it also shows that the approaches to teaching and learning reading skills are still
backdated. The observation shows that the syllabus, materials and tests are not bad,