Reading Comprehension Strategies Employed by English Teachers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

This descriptive study determined the reading comprehension strategies of English teachers during covid-19 pandemic of Gubat District Year 2020-2021 Apart from this, the participants of the study are composed of 10 high school English teachers. In addition, a Qualitative method of research was used in this study. The data were taken from interviews conducted among the teachers. Based on the analysis of the gathered data, the following findings were revealed, on the profile of the teachers, sex and specialization, and length in service. The different challenges met by the English teachers along teaching reading comprehension in the four levels of reading, literal level, inferential level, critical level and creative level. Moreover, different strategies in teaching reading comprehension were employed to address the challenge. Finally, the findings and the conclusions led to the following recommendations for the English teachers may be given English subject only so that they can focus or concentrate on teaching reading comprehension. Teachers may employ other strategies to develop higher order thinking skills among the learners. Moreover, it was also recommended that the proposed supplemental reading material be utilized to further enhance the reading performance of the students and that researchers may consider this study as basis to have further studies parallel to this study with different outputs.