Most of countries had a serious shortage of skilled experts in diverse fields including
cognitive sciences, vernacular sciences, medicine, engineering, technology, applied sciences, social
sciences and natural sciences. Reading comprehension as an issue noteworthy bit of four skills is a
requirement for entry in the professions to enable novices to grasp the content of various subjects in these
disciplines. Despite that, learners' performance in reading comprehension is dazzling. This article
highlights the high dissatisfaction rate of reading comprehension seeing in a certain setting. It proposes
possible causes behind learners' poor performance based on the literature. The article brings a sociosocial
theory of learning focusing on the zone of proximal development and social cognitive as a possible
solution in the progression of instructional practices. It makes suggestions on what should be done to
handle anticipated issues as proposed in the discussion.