JUDUL
ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) COLLEGE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN READING COMPREHENSION (A Study of Indonesian and Egyptian Students)
ABSTRAK
Comprehension is an important aspect in every reading activity. Through reading comprehension, readers can understand the content or passage of a text. This study aimed to reveal EFL college students’ difficulties in reading comprehension as well as its causative factors. This study involved to two EFL students majoring English Education in semester five. This study used qualitative method with narrative inquiry design. To collect he data, the researcher implied semi-structured interview technique with the partisipants. Thematic analysis by Barkhuizen, Benson, and Chik was used to analyzed the data. This study helps to develop the theory of Nuttall (2008) and Alderson (2005) about the difficulties in reading comprehension and the causative factors of difficulties in reading comprehension. The result of this study showed that there were several difficulties that faced by EFL college students in reading comprehension. They were namely difficulty in understanding word meaning, difficulty in understanding long sentences, difficulty in determining main idea, difficulty in making inference. Meanwhile, the next finding reported factors that caused the students’ difficulties were lack of language knowledge, lack of interest, lack of concentration, and the length of the text.
Keywords: reading comprehension, students’ difficulties, causative factors
PENULIS
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