TY - BOOK AU - Bukuru,Emmanuel AU - Kayonde,Oda ED - Université du Burundi TI - Assessment of the teaching and leaning of english reading skill in private primary schools: case of some bujumbura private primary schools in the sixth grade PY - 2016/// CY - Bujumbura PB - University of Burundi, Faculty of arts and social sciences, department of english language and literature KW - BI-BuBU KW - Anglais(langue) KW - Enseignement KW - Lecture KW - Ecole primaire privée.(6ème année) KW - Bujumbura(ville) KW - Mémoire N2 - This work aims at seeking to what extent the reading skill is taught and learnt in private primary schools in order to developp the reading performance in English. This study asks some questions related to:the time spent in teaching/learning the reading skill,the taeching materials,the pupils' attitudes,the cause of failure and the suggestions of the teachers to ipmrove the reading skill teaching.In order to collect the data for this study,a questionnaire was distributed to four(4) teachers from sixth grade of Ecole Internationale,Discovery School,Ecole les Cherubins and Ecole SOS.In addition to the questionnaire,I did classroom observation in the schools cited above. The analysis of the data led to a number of conclusions.The small period alloted to the teaching/learning of the reading skill,pupils'low leel and language interference are the causes of their failure in the reading skill.Besides,the reading skill is not evaluated ER -