TABLES OF CONTENTS Statement of authorship i Acknowledgements ii Abstract iii Table of contents 1 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 Background of the study 3 1.2 Aims of the study 3 1.3 The significance of the study 4 CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 5 2.1 Definition of reading 5 2.2 The importance of reading 5 2.3 Some reading skills 5 2.3.1 Skimming 5 2.3.2 Scanning 6 2.3.3 Inferring 6 2.3.4 Guessing the meaning from context 6 2.3.5 Answering comprehension question 6 2.4 Factors influence the progress of reading in language learning 7 2.4.1 Reader variables 7 2.4.2 Text topic and content 8 CHAPTER THREE THE METHODOLOGY 9 3.1 Researcher 9 3.2 Research questions 9 3.3 Subject 9 3.4 Setting 9 3.5 Data collection instruments 9 3.5.1 Textbook analysis 10 3.5.2 Questionnaire 10 3.5.3 Observation 12 3.6 Data collection procedure 13 3.6.1 Textbook analysis procedure 13 3.6.2 Questionnaires procedure 13 3.6.3 Observation procedure 13 CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 14 4.1 Results 14 4.1.1 Results of textbook analysis 14 4.1.2 Results of questionnaires 19 4.1.3 Results of observation 35 4.2 Discussions 40 4.2.1 Research question (1) 40 4.2.2 Research question (2) 41 CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 42 5.1 Conclusions 42 5.2 Recommendations 42 5.2.1 For the textbook 42 5.2.2 For teachers 43 5.2.3 For students 44Error! Bookmark not defined. 5.3 Limitations of the study 49 REFERENCES 51 APPENDIXES 52 Appendix 1a 52 Appendix 1b 55 Appendix 2 58 Appendix 3 62 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study English is one of the important subjects at High School. It has been used for Final Examinations to evaluate students’ level of knowledge. Therefore, whether students are proficient at English or not is very important to them. Being proficient at English means student is good at both received skills - reading and listening, and productive skills - speaking and writing. These four skills are integrated in a lesson to improve all these skills for the students, because one certain skill can be used to improve the others. Reading is an important and useful skill, because reading is the first step for students to get main and general information about a topic and it is a tool for students to get more information. In addition to, through reading, students can improve their vocabulary in various fields such as real life, science, and culture. Reading can not only train students’ thinking abilities but it also gives students a lot of updated information. In real life, students are able to read different kinds of materials such as documents, newspapers, and magazines. Therefore, reading is one of the good ways to get information, and to obtain knowledge. Reading is an important skill and subject, while “Most of grade 10 students in Thanh Binh-1 High School are not very good at Reading.” said, Mr. NguyenVan Be No, the Head of Foreign Language Teaching Staff in Thanh Binh-1 High School. As a student of pedagogical field, and a teacher of English in the near future, I am concerned in this problem. Moreover, no one has studied the causes of the problem so far. For some reasons above, the study was carried out to seek the real reasons, as well as, the solutions to the problems. 1.2 Aims of the study - To find out grade 10 students’ common problems in learning reading - To suggest solutions for these problems 1.3 The significance of the study Via solutions suggested in the study that based on the real problems also found in the study, both teachers of English and students to solve the problems in reading classes. The teachers can get certain suggestions to teach English reading more successfully or improve students’ reading skills because being good at reading partly helps students good at learning EFL. It means the study can partly help teachers and students better their teaching and learning. . TABLES OF CONTENTS Statement of authorship i Acknowledgements ii Abstract iii Table of contents 1 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 Background of the study 3 1.2 Aims of the study. 1.2 Aims of the study 3 1.3 The significance of the study 4 CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 5 2.1 Definition of reading 5 2.2 The importance of reading 5 2.3 Some reading skills 5 2.3.1. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 14 4.1 Results 14 4.1.1 Results of textbook analysis 14 4.1.2 Results of questionnaires 19 4.1.3 Results of observation 35 4.2 Discussions 40 4.2.1 Research question