Instructional Strategies for Improving English Language Learners’ Reading Comprehension: A Systematic Review

Abstract

English language learners make up the largest portion of English speakers all over the world. Moreover, the population of English language learners is growing fast these days. Therefore, teachers need to learn more effective teaching strategies to handle this rapid change. When studying English, reading comprehension has always been one of the most important skills that students should acquire. This review is a systematic review divided into two parts. The first part focuses on two of What Works Clearinghouse’s reviews; valuable reading comprehension instruction strategies were sifted out. The second part of the review selects four strategies published recently from 2019-2021. These strategies were chosen to support reading comprehension instruction by improving students’ vocabulary inference ability, knowledge connection ability, content prediction ability, and motivation.