Teaching reading skills by using techniques in a foreign language classroom

Reading is about understanding written text. It„s also a complex activity that involves both perception and though. Reading consists of two related processes: recognition and comprehension. Word recognition refers to the process of perceiving how written symbols correspond to one"s spoken language. Comprehension is the process of making sense of words, sentences and connected text. Readers typically make use of background knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, experience with text and other strategies to help them understand written text. A person may read in order to gain information, verify existing knowledge, read for enjoyment or enhance knowledge of the language being read. The purpose for reading also determines the appropriate approach to reading comprehension. The communicative approach to language teaching has given by instructors So the understanding of the role of reading techniques in the language classroom and the type of texts that can be used in instruction is very important