Pedagogical Barriers of English Language Teaching at Secondary Level in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

The reading comprehension skill is considered as one of the four extended fundamental language skills that English language learners are usually required to perform. It is not an easy skill since most of the learners have many reading issues and problems. The study envisaged the reading comprehension barriers at secondary level including teachers’ qualification, training in particular field and appropriateness of their training. A survey method with questionnaire as tool was used to collect data from (290) teachers selected through non probable sampling technique. The research instrument addressed the barriers in English language teaching process at secondary education in District Bagh. The results revealed that most of the teachers have difficulties in teaching the reading comprehension, further it was found that the teachers were not suitably qualified in teaching English at this level and to remove this deficiency there were no workshops or seminars to refresh the teachers’ knowledge. The study recommended that by holding training courses for the teachers, by improving selection process of teachers and by providing appropriate reading material, so that they reading comprehension could be improved.