Reading Indice as Tool for Effective Comprehension in English Language as A Global Language

This article highlights on reading indice as tool for effective comprehension in English language as a global language. Reading is one of the four language skills that plays key important roles in language development of every learner. Reading and comprehension are intertuned concept that cannot be separated because one cannot comprehend without reading, and comprehension cannot take place without reading and vice versa. The main crux here is that meanings and messages reside in reading the materials that contain the information. Comprehension in English language is the ability of the reader to interpret the message as contained in the text. On the other hand, the paper went further to explain some key issues such as skills in comprehension components, word identification, comprehension monitoring, meanings and text integration, lexical knowledge, reading comprehension, levels of comprehension, factors influencing learners reading comprehension, summarization descriptive text among others. Conclusion and recommendations were drawn based on the contents of the paper, which were extensively discussed.