A wide variety of theoretical accounts and research findings assert that subject area students need to practice applying their literacy skill in studying their content area subjects because of its strong relationships with learning the content areas, and that content area courses have the potential to involve students apply the skill. On the basis of this ground, this work presents the practices of 188 students of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Dilla University with regard to three issues: the students knowledge of the techniques (strategies) of reading, the reading...