1. EFL Students’ Attitudes
Teaching Reading
Insights into
EFL Students’ Attitudes
toward Reading
Supervised by :
ABOUYASSINE BRAHIM
BY :AHENDOUR MUSTAPHA

2. low Language proficiency level
MOTIVATION
low Language proficiency level
The language standard among students in the department of English is obviously low and of course there should be some satisfactory explanation for this undesirable fact; indeed, it’s due to some disruption in one of the four language teaching skills .It is hypothesized that reading is where the disruption is to be found , so it is time to dig up deeply into the core this skill.
General statement
This research paper examines students’ attitudes towards the skill of reading in addition to the factors that motivate them to read. The current research claims that the unsatisfactory language proficiency of students at Ibn Zohr university is due to the negative attitudes to reading.

3. Educational psychology
Theories of learning
Behaviorism
Reading is a behavior that can be reinforced .
The assistance students are provided while reading aids them to reach reading comprehension and motivates them to become eager readers.
Social constructivism
Cognitivism
Using cognitive schemas while reading is essential to achieve the intended the goals .
fields of inquiry
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Applied linguistics
Educational psychology

4. Research questions
What type of attitudes students hold about the skill reading, and reading materials?
Do students possess the necessary Tools of effective Reading?
What are the different factors that motivate students to read?
What are the different impacts of reading on students’ language proficiency ?

5. Review of related literature
CONTENTS : Part one
Review of related literature

6. Practical framework: CONTENTS
Method
Observation
Instruments
Questionnaires
Participants
language teachers(5)
Language students(61)
The sphere of the study:
The department of English at Ibn Zohr University.

7. Findings
Section
What type of attitudes students hold about the skill reading, and reading materials?
1. Attitudes to reading
1.1 :According to language teachers students’ perspectives about readings are as following:

8. 1.2 the assigned reading language students usually manage to read.

9. 1.3:Reasons: derived from teachers’ surveys
laziness and Lack of motivation.
The ignorance of reading tools and strategies.
Absence of a culture where reading is a normal habit.
Text is hard.
Relying on teachers to read and explain everything .

10. 2.Reading materials

11. 3. Results
Findings are remarkably negative and indicate that the majority of students are indifferent readers(e.g. only 11% manage to read all the assigned reading)
the choices in reading are delimited to the what is suggested by the educators ;in other words, students do no go beyond the academic tasks and school books.

12. Teachers’ answers about devoting time to teach reading skills!!
section
Do students possess the necessary Tools of effective Reading?
Teachers’ answers about devoting time to teach reading skills!!
The type of readers students are and an evaluation of their reading skill?
yes
sometimes no

13. Commentary
Although teachers claim that they regularly teach skills of reading , students seem not to possess the sufficient tools of reaching reading goals .

14. Section
What are the different factors that motivate students to read?

15. Section 4 Listening proficiency
the benefits of reading on EFL learners
Increasing vocabulary
Increasing writing proficiency
Increasing second language acquisition and input
Listening proficiency
Oral fluency
Achieving High grades
The syntactic structure becomes internalized

16. Concluding statement
The outcome of the study shows deep issues concerning the reading level at the department of English.

17. the set-up and the length of the distribution of questionnaires were quite limited.
Limitations

18. The end