The Challenges of Using Online Authentic Materials in Reading Classroom for First-Year EFL Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.066How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Online authentic materials, reading comprehension, reading skill
- Abstract
Authentic reading materials can be widely obtained from the internet nowadays. Exposing students with many real-life reading materials is necessary, but it cannot be denied that the use of such materials gives challenges to the students in comprehending them. This study attempted to explore the challenges faced by twenty-two EFL students in comprehending online authentic reading materials. Qualitative method was employed as the research design and it was conducted in a Reading Comprehension course for one semester. The participants of this research were 22 freshmen who majored in English Education department enrolled at a university in West Sumatera, Indonesia. In collecting the data, the researchers used observation, questionnaire and interview. The findings of the research showed that students encountered some difficulties in comprehending online authentic materials such as too many new words, English phrases, and English slangs. Moreover, the results also showed that students faced some challenges in reading the material when the length of the text is not appropriate for their level and the topic is too far from their interests.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rahma Dania AU - Annisha Dyuli Adha PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/28 TI - The Challenges of Using Online Authentic Materials in Reading Classroom for First-Year EFL Students BT - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 433 EP - 436 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.066 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.066 ID - Dania2021 ER -