This study aimed to investigate the reading comprehension program at a University of Technology to understand whether the ESP course affects students' reading comprehension ability or not. To gather subjects , an OPT test was administered to 100 students bringing out 60 students in intermediate level of Eng-lish proficiency. The participants were divided randomly into two groups of control and experimental. Then a pretest on reading comprehension was administered to insure the homogeneity of

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... jects and record what degree of implicit knowledge of comprehension they had. After treatment process which lasted for five sessions of teaching reading strategies, posttests were administered to subjects in order to understand whether they have progressed or not. The gathered data from subjects in both control and experimental groups were analyzed using independent samples t-test and ANCOVAs with the help of SPSS software. The data analysis revealed that the null hypothesis of the study is proved. Results indicated that learners who received reading comprehension strategies progress were more in contrast to those who did not receive the strategies in control group. The progress in experimental group was significantly different from the control group.