READING COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES: A STUDY FACED BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS

Andhini Widya Sayekti

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Dedicated to enhancing reading comprehension among English Department students at the Islamic University of Malang, this research focuses on identifying and addressing challenges inherent in advanced English education. It aims to develop effective strategies by exploring factors such as vocabulary expansion, sentence structure comprehension, and cultural nuances in language use. Through qualitative methods like narrative inquiry, the study seeks to offer practical solutions to improve students’ ability to grasp complex academic texts, aiming to foster academic excellence within higher education contexts. This study intends to investigate how factors such as challenges in concentration, linguistic barriers, and complex sentence structures affect outcomes. Additionally, it will explore strategies used to overcome these challenges. Through the use of a qualitative methodology and a narrative inquiry design, this study examines particular difficulties with reading comprehension that third-semester English Department students at the Islamic University of Malang face. The study highlights the capabilities of the qualitative research paradigm for qualitatively dominating concurrent triangulation, with a focus on the significance of individual experiences. 

 

Keywords: reading, reading comprehension, reading difficulties, reading strategies


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