Abstract:
This paper explores the importance of developing fluent reading skill and
tends to find out the strengths and weaknesses of its teaching at the tertiary level in
Bangladesh. In order to give our students sufficient exposure to English, we have to
solve the problems of learning and teaching fluent reading in English and find out
effective ways of approaching this significant skill. With reference to research
evidence, that we have studied both from the teachers’ and students’ point of view
on the basis of a questionnaire survey, we now turn to the role of fluent reading in
fostering learners’ progress in reading skill as well as developing the other three
major skills-listening, speaking and writing.
