Tamene Ketila(PhD)Kidanemariam Asmelash2025-02-122025-02-122024-09https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4155Themainobjectiveofthisstudyis to investigatereadingpracticesofgrade10studentsin Bizet Secondaryschool Bizettownin2012academicyear.Thestudyhastwomainspecificobjectives. The first specificobjective wastodescribeteachersreadingproceduresuseandthesecond objective wastoexamine the students’frequency ofreadingstrategy use inthe grade level mentionedabove.Datawere gatheredfromthe participantsofthe study suchasgarde10English teachersandgrade10students.Toachievethisdescriptivesurveyresearchdesignamixedmethod wasused.SixEnglishteachersandsixtythreestudentswereinvolvedinthestudybyusingrandom samplingtechnique method. The variousresearchinstrumentswhich have beenemployedinthe studyinclude: classroomobservation,teachersandstudentsquestionnaires.The collectedraw datawerecategorizedanddescriptivelyanalyzed.Particularlybothqualitative andquantitative dataanalysisanddiscussiontechnique were used.The classroomobservationwasanalyzed qualitatively whereastheclosedendedquestionnaireswere analyzedquantitatively. Asaresult, thefindings depictedthatteachers‘use inconsistentlyandinappropriatelythethreereading proceduressuchasbefore,duringandafter- readinginthe mentionedgrade level.In addition, teacherswereobservedusingtraditionalwayofteachingreadingwhichwasdominatedbyreading aloud.Therehasbeenlesstimegivenforsilentreadingorindependentreading.Thestudentswere notactively involvedinthe three readingprocedure relatedactivitiesinthe formofgroupand pairdiscussion.Ontopofthis,thestudents’frequencyofreadingtechniquesusewasfoundatlow level.Theresultofincorrectteachersreadingprocedureuseandlowlevelofreadingstrategyuse hasresultedinthepoorreadingpracticeofgrade 10students. Tothatend,thisstudygives suggestionthatcouldbringaboutatransformationinthepractice ofreadinginthegrade level studiedwiththeintentionthatrecentandconsistentteachers readingproceduresuse andhigh frequencyof reading strategy level in order to improvethe reading practices ofstudents.en-USThesis