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Teaching English reading comprehension skills to readers of other languages may be a tough task for many teachers of English. Traditional, teacher- centred methods which emphasises a comprehension- testing model and have been widely used in school environments where English is used as a lingual franca or a shared language of communication may not be an answer to facilitating proficient EFL readers. This book showcases a ground-breaking teaching method implemented in a quasi-experimental study which provided a successful proof of helping to raise the English reading comprehension skills of tertiary student readers. In the study, a programme of strategy training intervention was introduced to an experimental cohort using strategies-based instruction and a control cohort using teacher- fronted methods. Derived from various instruments employed,the results pointed to the fact that strategies-based instruction can be a better alternative for teaching English L2 or EFL reading comprehension.

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Songyut Akkakoson, PhD, is a lecturer at King Mongkut´s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand. His research interests lie in learning styles and strategies, reading in EFL, English for Specific Purposes and learner autonomy.

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