A Critical Study of the Problems Faced by the Libyan Students in Reading and Comprehension of English as a Foreign Language

Abstract

This study was conducted with the participation of the students in the English Department at the University of Zawia, Libya. This study is designed to explore the reading strategy most often used among Libyan university students, to show how male and females use learning strategies when they face a text in English, and also to show the relationship between the learners' strategies use and their EFL proficiency. The results of the study show that the most frequently Reading strategies used was meta-cognitive strategies, there is a statistically differences between male and female learners in their use of language learning strategies. Furthermore, the results also show differences between students' level of proficiency and their use of language learning strategies.