This study was aimed to determine the status of reading knowledge, reading skills, reading purpose, reading interest and reading preference toward English technical materials among students in selected technical schools in Perak. The study was also intended to measure correlations between these variables and its significant differences based on selected demographics of students. The samples consisted of 120 students selected by simple random sampling from four schools. The instruments used were questionnaires and reading comprehension test. Statistical Package for Social Science version 20 was used to analyze data to obtain frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations, t tests, Anova and Pearson correlations. The findings showed that the levels of reading skills, reading purpose were found to be high while their reading knowledge, reading interest and reading preference as they perceived were moderate. This study also revealed that male students obtained significantly higher me.....

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