Abstract:
The main purpose of this study was to investigate teacher’s utilization of authentic
reading materials to help develop students’ reading comprehension skills in Gudeya
Bila secondary school ,in GudeyaJare Secondary school and in Zengi Secondary
schools .Descriptive survey design which involved both quantitative and qualitative
techniques of data collection ,and analysis ,was employed in the study to achieve the
research goal .Thus, ten English teachers from three high schools were taken as the
participants of the study .Questionnaires for English teachers ,classroom observation
and interview questions with English teachers as data collection instruments were
used and analyzed using qualitative and quantitative descriptive statistics .The overall
finding of this study showed that ,the majority of the teachers strongly disagree that
they were unfamiliar to the utilization of authentic reading materials in EFL class to
help develop students’ reading comprehension skills. Therefore, teachers found it
difficult to incorporate authentic reading materials in to their pedagogical teaching
methodology in EFL class context as a tool to help develop students’ reading
comprehension skills .Finally, this study recommends all of EFL teachers to maximize
their awareness and capacity on how to incorporate and utilize authentic reading
materials in EFL class context .Moreover, other researchers also have to investigate
their research on teachers utilization of authentic reading materials in EFL class
context in a large scale.
