Collaborative Strategic Reading Practice with Adult EFL Learners: A Collaborative and Reflective Approach to Reading

Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) involves the use of four reading strategies in collaboration with peers and facilitates the comprehension of the text andleads to gains in terms of student achievement, participation, and motivation. The present study aims to find out the effects of this approach on adult EFL learners’ reading comprehension and reading-related problems. 40 prep- class university students, having three hours of reading classes per week, participated in the study and they were labeled into two groups as experimental and control groups. The results revealed that CSR affected the comprehension and reading related problems of adult EFL learners positively.