The Students’ Difficulties in Understanding English Text in the Covid-19 Pandemic Era

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10.2991/978-2-494069-19-0_16How to use a DOI?

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reading difficulties; reading comprehension; pandemic era

Abstract

This article explores the difficulties of the students in reading English texts in learning at the Covid-19 Pandemic Era and the efforts done by the English teachers. The research has been done by using a qualitative approach by using reading tests and interviews as the instruments of research. The data that have been obtained were analyzed by reading, grouping, coding, and interpreting. Based on the result, it was found that the students have difficulties in determining idea, understanding vocabulary, finding detail information, and making inferences. There are some teacher’s efforts to solve of students’ difficulties in reading comprehension. They are: explaining more detail, giving new vocabulary, and not allowing the students to speak Arabic language when studying English. The dominant factor that made students difficult in reading English text is that they usually speak Arabic language in classroom. Based on the findings it can be stated that the students had difficulties in understanding English texts, even though they studied English in the pandemic era. However, the teachers had tried to minimize the difficulties by giving more explanation and example to get the information from the text. It is suggested that the teachers in boarding school must give more interesting model to teach the students reading, and also giving the students authentic reading materials to make them being easier to get the ideas from the text.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Eka Sustri Harida
AU  - Yusni Sinaga
AU  - Sri Rahmadani Siregar
AU  - Nurlija Matondang
AU  - Addini Hayatunnuha Rahmadani
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/05
TI  - The Students’ Difficulties in Understanding English Text in the Covid-19 Pandemic Era
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Science and Teacher Profession (ICETeP 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 134
EP  - 140
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-19-0_16
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-19-0_16
ID  - Harida2022
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