STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING READING FAILURE AMONG STUDENTS OF SCIENCE ANDTECHNOLOGY

Nwaiwu Chris Okey

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The paper identified reading as the badge of intellect and the proof of knowledge, hence reading failure results in academic failure. It identified and discussed a number of factors responsible for reading failure among students and argued specifically for the need to arrest reading failure among science and technology students if they must be able to verbalize the scientific and technological concepts in them. The paper concluded that reading failure is a manifestation of reading problems which invariably amounts to leaning disability,it therefore recommended for improvement of reading failure via a number of suggested strategies such as constant reading practice with a view to improving one's reading technique

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