Vol. 11, Special Issue 10 (2022)

Reading strategies and styles have been a topic of educational discussion from a long time. Everyone has their own reading strategy, and no one strategy is better than the other. However, there is no one-size-fits-all reading technique or strategy that works for all reading materials. The materials being read, as well as the reason for reading, will influence the reading strategy used. The present study was an attempt to get insight into what reading strategies adolescents (15 - 19 years) use in reading in Golaghat district of Assam. By using a multi-stage sampling procedure, a sample of 342 numbers of adolescents from eight schools of the East and South educational blocks of Golaghat district were drawn randomly from classes 9 - 12, considering the students from the age group of 15 - 19 years. A self-constructed questionnaire was prepared to collect the required information from all the respondents. The collected data were coded and analysed using IBM SPSS. The results revealed that CV value for intensive reading is 18.6%, which is highest, indicating that the majority of the adolescents use intensive reading strategy, followed by extensive reading (CV = 13.9%), skimming (CV = 9.7%) and scanning (CV = 9.4%).