Academic Journal: Revealing EFL Students' Challenges In Reading
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https://doi.org/10.53958/ft.v4i3.284Keywords:
Academic Journal, Students Challenges, Reading Skill.Abstract
This study aims to identify the difficulties of reading journals for students in the English Language Education department of Hamzanwadi University. This study was analyzed using a descriptive-qualitative design. The 27 students in the fourth semester as participants by using purposive sampling. The documentation and interviews were used as instruments to collect the data. Findings show that the biggest challenges are: 1.) The students have a bad perception of academic journals; 2.) The vocabulary is too high; 3.) The sentence structure is hard to understand.
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Al-Jarf, R. (2022). Online vocabulary tasks for engaging and motivating EFL college students in distance learning during the pandemic and post-pandemic. International Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS), 4(1), 14–24.
Alloghani, M., Al-Jumeily, D., Mustafina, J., Hussain, A., & Aljaaf, A. J. (2020). A systematic review on supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms for data science. Supervised and Unsupervised Learning for Data Science, 3–21.
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Baas, J., Schotten, M., Plume, A., Côté, G., & Karimi, R. (2020). Scopus as a curated, high-quality bibliometric data source for academic research in quantitative science studies. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(1), 377–386.
Barus, I. R. G., Simanjuntak, M. B., & Resmayasari, I. (2021). READING LITERACIES THROUGH EVIETA-BASED LEARNING MATERIAL: STUDENTS’PERCEPTIONS (Study Case Taken from Vocational School–IPB University). Journal of Advanced English Studies, 4(1), 15–20.
Calma, A. (2023). Using assurance of learning data to assess business students’ research skills. Quality Assurance in Education.
Ecalle, J., Dujardin, E., Gomes, C., Cros, L., & Magnan, A. (2021). Decoding, fluency and reading comprehension: Examining the nature of their relationships in a large-scale study with first graders. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 37(5), 444–461.
Isma, A., & Nur, S. (2023). Examining the Reading Performance and Problems among Students in Indonesian Higher Education. SELTICS, 6(1), 12–23.
Kalsum, K., Rauf, F. A., & Sardi, A. (2023). Implementation of Reading-Log to Increase Students’ Interest on Literacy at Islamic Boarding School. IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature, 10(2), 1887–1898.
Kizi, S. G. G. (2021). Formation Of Independent Reading Skills in Primary School Students. Texas Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2, 222–224.
Kruk, M., Pawlak, M., Shirvan, M. E., Taherian, T., & Yazdanmehr, E. (2022). Potential sources of foreign language learning boredom: AQ methodology study. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 12(1), 37–58.
Levitt, H. M. (2021). Qualitative generalization, not to the population but to the phenomenon: Reconceptualizing variation in qualitative research. Qualitative Psychology, 8(1), 95.
Masrai, A. (2019). Vocabulary and reading comprehension revisited: Evidence for high-, mid-, and low-frequency vocabulary knowledge. Sage Open, 9(2), 2158244019845182.
Mezmir, E. A. (2020). Qualitative data analysis: An overview of data reduction, data display, and interpretation. Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 10(21), 15–27.
Purba, B., & Rini, M. (2021). IMPROVING THE STUDENTS’READING COMPREHENSION BY USING COMIC STRIPS AT SMAMUHAMMADIYAH-7 SERBELAWAN GRADE XI. Bilingual: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, 3(2), 64–74.
Reedy, A., & De Carvalho, R. (2021). Children’s perspectives on reading, agency and their environment: what can we learn about reading for pleasure from an East London primary school? Education 3-13, 49(2), 134–147.
Septia, N. W., Indrawati, I., Juriana, J., & Rudini, R. (2022). An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Reading Comprehension. EEdJ: English Education Journal, 2(1), 11–22.
Smith, R., Snow, P., Serry, T., & Hammond, L. (2021). The role of background knowledge in reading comprehension: A critical review. Reading Psychology, 42(3), 214–240.
Syakur, A., & Azis, R. (2020). Developing reading learning model to increase reading skill for animal husbandry students in higher education. Britain International of Linguistics Arts and Education (BIoLAE) Journal, 2(1), 484–493.
Vrontis, D., Christofi, M., Pereira, V., Tarba, S., Makrides, A., & Trichina, E. (2022). Artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced technologies and human resource management: a systematic review. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 33(6), 1237–1266.
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2023-07-22
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Munawarah, M., Alfatihah, A., Nurhaliyani, N., Fatimatuzzuhroni, S., & Jaelani, S. R. (2023). Academic Journal: Revealing EFL Students’ Challenges In Reading. Faidatuna, 4(3), 59–66. https://doi.org/10.53958/ft.v4i3.284
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