Investigating Reading Strategies Used by Teachers at the Departments of English, Universities of Duhok and Nawroz

Abstract

This paper aims at investigating the employment of reading strategies by EFL teachers in their EFL classes at the Departments of English, Universities of Duhok and Nawroz. In order achieve the aims of the study and answer its questions a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire adopted from Oxford et al, (2004) was given to 10 EFL teachers; 6 females and 4 males, from the departments of English at the colleges of Languages and Basic Education at University of Duhok and Nawroz university. The questionnaire consists of 40 reading items grouped into three categories of (pre-reading stage, while-reading stage, and after-reading stage) that cover all the possible reading strategies used in EFL classes. It has been found out that all teachers are well aware of the reading strategies. However, the Global Reading strategies are preferred over the Supportreading strategies and Problem-solving strategies by teachers. Moreover, the participant teachers believe that all reading strategies are important to be used in EFL reading classes. Finally, there were no statistically significant differences between the teachers regarding their use of the reading strategies as far as gender is concerned.