Developing Strategies for Success in English

Abstract

Today, the use of English is not just a language but the need of the upgrading academic grades. The
cognitive view of learning has had a significant impact on English for Academic purposes. Today, a
number of ESP Projects by Brazil, University of Malaya Projects have concentrated on making students
aware of their reading strategies so that they can consciously apply them to understanding texts in a
second language.
From the beginning of the school days, now the students are practicing in deciding whether or not
to use a dictionary while reading a text for particular purposes. Our curriculum must include such
activities which will be…
• To make reading purposeful
• To allow the students to get variations in language proficiency, with different words.
• To highlight the issue of relevance
This kind of focus on the reading English treats learners Process by stressing that learning will
only take place when the matter to be learnt meaningful to the learners