THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DEVELOPING READING SKILLS AND THE USE OF ONLINE TEACHING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

While teaching a foreign language to students, reading skills has great impact along with other skills such as listening, speaking and writing. Reading is about understanding written texts. It is a complex activity that involves both perception and thought. Readers typically make use of background knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, experience with text and other strategies to help them understand written text. Through reading in a foreign language, the student enriches his knowledge, of the world around him/her. He/She gets acquainted with the countries where the target language is spoken. Reading develops students' intelligence. It helps to develop their memory, will, imagination. Generally, it has been observed that many teachers don't develop this skill in the students in the right way, and even provide little time for it. It is, therefore, necessary to work to know about reading skills and to incorporate them in in teaching practices. In this paper an effort will be made to analyze reading skills of the first-year students of the International Programming faculty of Samarkand State University.In order to do so the students will be provided reading materials Their patterns of difficulty, that affect their comprehension will be highlighted