Abstract:
This study reflects on the effectiveness of teaching methods in improve reading skills among
secondary schools in Mbale district. Since the study wants to have an in-depth understanding of
the methods that teachers use to improve reading skills, a qualitative methodology is to be used.
It is within this methodology that a case study was adopted whereby three methods of data
collection were used, namely: interviewing, observation and documents. One school will be
selected as site for the study by means of purposive sampling. The participants are to be
interviewed included teachers and learners. The documents consulted included learners class work books, assignments and tests scripts. The researcher also will observe the lessons that will be presented by the teachers.
This study is to find out the difficulties in reading faced by learners, for example, they cannot
punctuate, pronounce and spell words correctly. Furthermore, the study also found that teachers
were not trained to deal with reading difficulties. Having the general view of methods of teaching but the focus will have to zero to specific methods of teaching of reading skill which will surmise various theories, findings and opinions concerning the teaching of reading. an understanding of those topics, especially the top-down, bottom – up and meta – cognitive could be used as the basic to improve the reading skill .by doing so the reading proficiency of learners of English as the foreign language could be significantly enhanced.
