Reading comprehension in english as a foreign language

Reading comprehension represents a fundamental orientation for the development of linguistic skills on human beings: speaking, listening, reading and writing. The process is focused on English as a foreign language. Moreover, it is an approach that serves as a reference for developing the educative and formative short, medium- and long-term processes. Understanding how you read is related with the capacity of understanding students in a language, and knowing how to use it in a specific context. Restructuring of knowing “what” and knowing “how” plays a role in student’s learning process. Besides, the communicative competence: linguistic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic are required in that process. These ones settle on the meaning of words which are elements of a text and comprehension itself. Reading comprehension on mother tongue and a foreign language has got obstacles for administrative or cultural causes. Nowadays, consequences for education are not free. In fact, comprehension process directly or indirectly influences cognitive, social and personal performance. Although theories and concepts, the negative results are still appearing. Reading comprehension in English as a foreign language is inherent in the students’ education, its development is the result of a right action of didactics, pedagogy and curriculum. Therefore, the learning process is deeply affected. The most poignant is nobody does anything regarding it. Analysis and get answers might change this situation.