7 reading passages were selected. These passages for the intervention were articles selected from" English for the Students of Engineering", a textbook developed by Bidahari, et al (1990) under the aegis of SAMT. With regard to language proficiency, many researchers have used established tests with known validity and reliability such as the TOEFL. In the present study, only the Reading Comprehension section of the TOEFL was used. The topics were taken from academic subjects related to students’ field of study. The reading tasks used for this study were TOEFL texts of 250 to 350 words in length and 30 questions in total.