A Qualitative Study of Reading Comprehension: An Insight from Pakistani Context Bridging the Needs of Engineering Students

This study aimed to investigate the teachers’ opinions in terms of reading comprehension instruction to the \nengineering students for bridging their difficulties in reading academic text in communication subject. The study \nwas conducted in the four engineering departments of one university in Pakistan. Semi-structured interviews of \n10 teachers were used as a qualitative instrument to collect data for this study to know the needs of engineering \nstudents in terms of reading comprehension. The data was analyzed through NVivo version 8 for interpretation \nof the results. This study provided the most promising findings to develop reading ability among engineering \nstudents. The findings revealed that teachers should use rereading text, text scanning, and text skimming \nstrategies to develop reading comprehension ability of engineering students.