READING AND WRITING IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Nowadays learning a foreign language have many advantages and more opportunities such as studying outside, meeting with people from other countries, get a relationship or get a good job in the most important enterprise,etc; in this case we refer to English like a second language which allow for developing in wherever we are. We know that English help us in continuous developing of our skills such as listening, reading, writing and speaking all of them are very necessary for learning. We address the following topics: Reading and writing complement each other. Reading in English is one of the most important parts in the learning. During this process the learners are going to get information through the texts of diverse authors who help us developing of their skills. One occasion I heard that if a learner of foreign language in this case an English learner wants to comprise English texts he/she should start to read in his/her mother tongue this will help to do a habit and to understand much better the texts. I give an example: in Europe reading is very common for the people since they created a reading’s habit therefore we see the European people tend to get a new language and for them to learn a new language it’s not complicated, they manage very well English as a foreign language. Reading help learners to get vocabulary and grammar structure but basically we read to full of many words that we never seen thanks to reading in English understand sentences, phrases, and paragraph obviously all of this process will take a time to when learners have the rhythm required. Therefore some teachers recommend to use dictionaries during reading and to organize time also they give some strategies to learn and understand texts in English as well as a native speaker. These strategies are: using background knowledge, predicting, self-monitoring and self-correcting, identifying main ideas and summarizing and finally making inferences and questioning.