An Investigation Of Teachers’ Utilization Of Authentic Reading Materials To Help Develop Students’ Reading Comprehensions Skills: The Case Of Grade 9 Students At Gudaya Bila, Gudaya Jare And Zengi Secondary Schools.

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.