Abstract:
Reading is considered to be a quite important element in language teaching and learning as it plays a great role in developing the language mastery. It is one of the necessities that EFL students should learn and practice as it is a source to enhance their language skills learning , to increase their cognitive production and to exposure them to foreign cultures . In fact , the researchers have discovered that there is a strong link between the reading skill and the language learning performance . The purpose of this study is to shed light on the role of reading in developing language mastery and its impact in enhancing the learning of other skills: writing, speaking and listening . As It attempts to clarify the way how reading can improve these skills. Still, this research also tries to find out the main difficulties that cause reading failure and the obstacles that lead the students to be rather interested in practicing reading. It tends to avail plans and strategies for the first year EFL students to be effective readers. To achieve this , we designed an exploratory research based on questionnaire was conducted at the department of English at Djilali Bounaama university in Khemis Miliana , where the informants are the first year EFL students .The findings obtained from this instrument revealed that reading effectively plays a very important role in improving languages learning skills. Moreover, extensive reading proved to be a successful program that has numerous language benefits. Further, the results show that the lack of motivation and language competence, as well as the absence of guidance of the teachers towards students arte the obstacles that lead to a poor reading. That‘s why the teachers of reading should require to use effective programs and instructions to first year EFL students to enhance their reading.
