TELL - US JOURNAL
Vol 7, No 2 (2021): September 2021

STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTS




Article Info

Publish Date
13 Sep 2021

Abstract

This study entitled “Students’ Difficulties in Comprehending English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Text” was intended to find out the challenging areas of difficulty in reading comprehension and to find out why the students faced the difficulties in that areas. The participants of this study were the students of XIIPA-3 and there were 26 students of XIIPA-3. The instruments of this study were test, and interview guides. Based on the analysis of the test, the writer found that the challenging areas in comprehending the text were inference, vocabulary and phrase questions and this question also was classified into the difficult question based on index difficulty formula. Through  the  interview,  the  writer  found  that  the  students  are  poor  in vocabulary mastery, and limited knowledge in analyzing reading comprehension question. Thus, this study found that the three areas above were the challenging parts faced by the students. There were some factors influencing the students’ challenging in comprehending the text. First it was also influenced by their weaknesses  in  mastering  wide  range  of  vocabulary,  sentence  structure,  and reading comprehension question types in English. And the second was lack of knowledge in analyzing the text.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

tell-us

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

Description

The purpose of TELL-US Journal is to promote the wide dissemination of the results of systematic scholarly inquiries into the broad field of English research. TELL-US Journal is intended to be the journal for publishing articles reporting the results of research on English. The TELL-US Journal ...