Bounab, SamiraKhaldi, Hafida2018-03-192018-03-192014http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2546Reading is a platform for developing the other skills: speaking, writing, and listening. It is the source of vocabulary knowledge enlargement. However, it was given a little interest in the english department at Larbi Ben M'Hidi university, Oum-El-Bouaghi. This affects the learners' awareness towards the significance of this skill in learning a foreign language. Most students find reading difficult due to their lack of vocabulary knowledge. That is to say, encountering vocabulary problems may affect their reading comprehension which is in return the ultimate goal behind reading. Therefore, to facilitate this skill, i.e, "reading comprehension" for students; it is important to adopt certain strategies to deal with these problems. In fact, many studies have shown that the contextual-guessing strategy is among the most important strategies that can help students to read and comprehend better. For this reason, our aim in this dissertation is to know about the students and teachers' perceptions concerning the importance of this strategy and to see to what extent it may help learners to develop their reading comprehension. Therefore, to accomplish this study, we administered two questionnaires. The first one was given to sixty third year LMD students in the english department at Larbi Ben M'Hidi university, during the academic year 2013/2014. Our aim is to get insights about students' views concerning reading comprehension, vocabulary problems, and the importance of the contextual-guessing strategy to deal with the impeding factors in order to facilitate their reading comprehension. The second questionnaire was administered to fifteen (15) teachers of the same department. It aims at checking their responses regarding their students' reading comprehension difficulties, and the importance of the contextual-guessing strategy in facilitating this skill and helping them to deal with the vocabulary-related problems. The obtained results in this study confirm our hypothesis that the contextual-guessing strategy facilitates the students' reading comprehension. Therefore, the study also proposed a number of recommendations.enReading comprehension : skillsOther