Evaluation of teaching reading materials for second year student teachers at the department of English in the teacher-training institutes

الملخص EN

This paper is concerned with evaluating teaching reading materials for second year student teachers at the department of English in the Teacher- Training Institutes.

This evaluation is done in terms of certain criteria proposed by Krashen & Terrell (1983).

In the light of this process of evaluation and in an attempt to help teachers derive the utmost utility out of the given teaching reading materials so as to enhance their students' comprehension process, some pedagogical suggestions for dealing with the given materials are offered.

The work consists of four sections: Section One presents certain concepts regarding the skill of reading comprehension.

Section Two presents certain criteria proposed by Krashen & Terrell (Ibid) on the bases of which the given material is evaluated.

Section Three executes the process of evaluation.

On the basis of die findings of the process of evaluation and in an attempt to help teachers deriv e the utmost utility out of the given materials to enhance their students" reading comprehension process, I present some pedagogical suggestions for dealing with the given materials.

Two sets of suggestions are made.

The first set is practical: relating to the findings of the process of evaluation, and takes the form of adaptations.

The second set, on the other hand, consists of general suggestions intended to highlight some of the prerequisites for enhancing the students' reading comprehension process.

These are dealt with in Section Four.