AbstractReading skills play an important role in mastering a language and
knowledge. Therefore it is important to expose students to practice strategic
reading habits since it will assist them to perform in academic journey. The
current investigation aims to observe the effect of reading strategies training
towards subjects’ reading comprehension performance as well as the subjects’
level of awareness utilizing reading strategies when they perform their reading
tasks. The subjects in this investigation were 30 first semester students from the
Commerce Department of Sultan Azlan Shah Polytechnic. 15 subjects were
Diploma of Marketing (DPR) students and another 15 subjects were Diploma of
Accountancy (DAT) students. DPR students were assigned to the experimental
group meanwhile DAT students were assigned to the control group. The
experimental group undergone 60 minute reading strategy training for 12 weeks
meanwhile the control group did not receive any training. In order to obse.....