Nowadays, to technical universities and colleges in Vietnam, the ultimate objective of teaching and learning foreign languages is helping students to not only communicate successfully in a language but also use that language as a useful tool to acquire comprehensive knowledge of science and technology. Throughout the process of teaching and learning foreign languages, one of the skills that needed paying more attention to is reading comprehension of specialized documents. Quite a few graduates have not yet possessed this skill even when they had left schools. This phenomenon results from certain factors
however, one critical reason is the ineffectiveness of technical document reading methods. Readers can find in the following article the main reasons that cause difficulties in specialized document reading, and suggested methods to enhance this skill.