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Ameera Fadhillah
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Teacher's Difficulties in Teaching Reading Skills in Exposition Text at SMAN 1 Percut Sei Tuan Yohana Simanjuntak; Yohana Simanjuntak; Ameera Fadhillah; Annisa Salsabila
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol. 15 No. 2 (2026)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/mqy1sy33

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This study explores the teacher's difficulties in teaching reading skills in exposition texts at SMAN 1 Percut Sei Tuan. The research focuses on identifying the challenges faced by the teacher in teaching students' reading skills. Through a qualitative analysis, the studies identifies that the teacher encountered several difficulties is related to the students' limited vocabulary, lack of students' reading comprehension, pronunciation, students' reading interest, and provide the variety of reading materials. The students' ability to read aloud the text clearly is still low. Mispronunciation words and their interest in reading exposition text were reflected in their unenthusiastic participation during classroom reading activities and their lack of initiative in answering the teacher's question while reading the text. Furthermore, the findings highlight that these difficulties affected to the teaching and learning process into stiff and less enjoyable classroom atmosphere. It make the teacher often repeatedly explain the text and guide the students just to read it properly. Despite of that difficulties, the overall result emphasize that the importance ability of the teacher to manage on how the exposition text is understandable and suitable for the students' english level is important to adapt for the effective teaching reading skills. The study concludes that the difficulties are interconnected and influenced by students' ability, motivation and classroom engagement. 
EFL University Students’ Difficulties and Strategies in Taking the EnglishScore Test Ayu Lestari; Ameera Fadhillah; Priska Oktaviani Br Ginting; Lia Lisyati
REGISTER: Journal of English Language Teaching of FBS-Unimed Vol. 15 No. 2 (2026)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Medan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24114/nhbdcp98

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This study aimed to identify the difficulties experienced by EFL English Language and Literature students in taking the EnglishScore test and to explore the strategies they used to overcome those difficulties. This study employed a descriptive qualitative research design involving 45 students from the English Language and Literature Department who had previously taken the EnglishScore test. The data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire distributed online. The collected data were analyzed using thematic analysis by categorizing students’ difficulties based on Chapelle and Douglas’ theory of digital language assessment and students’ strategies based on Oxford’s Language Learning Strategies theory. The findings revealed that listening comprehension difficulties became the most dominant difficulty with a frequency of 29 responses, particularly related to fast speech and unfamiliar accents. Meanwhile, cognitive strategies became the most frequently used strategies with 26 responses, especially practicing listening exercises and identifying keywords. Overall, the findings showed that students relied on various learning strategies to complete the EnglishScore test more effectively.
Co-Authors ANNISA SALSABILA Ayu Lestari Lia Lisyati Priska Oktaviani Br Ginting Yohana Simanjuntak Yohana Simanjuntak