... elaborates the analysis of current situation of teaching and learning reading at Haiphong Foreign Language Center - Haiphong University. Time and efforts have been spent on accumulating information ... and are not used to applying communicative approach in their teaching. They often attach themselves to the traditional teaching method, i.e. grammar translation, in which grammar and vocabulary ... idea or gist (skimming), searching rapidly for a particular piece of information (scanning), reading a longer text for pleasure (extensive reading), and reading a short text carefully and in...