EFL Teachers' Perspectives on Secondary School Students' Reading Comprehension Difficulties at Bisha Province
Journal Title: The Journal of Middle East and North Africa Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
This study aimed to find out the main difficulties experienced by the EFL students at Bisha secondary schools with reference to prediction, reading comprehension, understanding and skimming abilities, to find out the EFL teachers perspectives on reading comprehension difficulties, to find out the perspectives of the experienced teachers on reading and investigate comprehension difficulties of EFL students at Bisha secondary school, and to bring forward recommendation to the teachers and the students on the various ways to tackle reading comprehension difficulties. To achieve these purposes, the researcher adopted the descriptive method by preparing a questionnaire, and this tool administered to (74) teachers working in secondary schools in Bisha, in addition to using the comparative descriptive method to compare the study sample responses means according to (academic level – years of experience) variables. Then the researcher used suitable series of statistical processes to get the study results which were as the follows: 1) There are difficulties in comprehension and summarizing a text, 2) Lexical Difficulties (Vocabulary), 3) Difficulties in Predicting the meaning of a text, 4) Difficulties in skimming and scanning a text. Finally, in light of the study results and discussion the researcher presented some recommendations such as paying attention to overcoming difficulties in comprehension and summarizing, paying attention to lexical difficulties and overcoming difficulties in predicting the meaning of a text, and Paying attention to difficulties in skimming and scanning a text. The researcher suggested that it is better to conduct a similar study on girl's EFL teachers from different areas of KSA.
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Fayez Saad Fayez Al-Thuwayb
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