Reading Comprehension Problems in Reading Section of Toefl Test

Abstract

This research aims to find out the reading comprehension problems faced by the eight semester English Education Study Program students of Universitas Bengkulu in Reading Section of TOEFL test. The subject of this research is eight semester students of English Education Study Program in academic year 2018/2019 who have taken TOEFL test in Language Laboratory, FKIP, Universitas Bengkulu. The subject of this research is 70 students of 79 students. This research was used descriptive quantitative as the methodology and the data was collected by using questionnaire as an instrument that distributed via Google-form. The questionnaire consisted of 20 statements which represent 5 aspects of reading comprehension problems by Wutthisingchai (2011). This research uses 4-point Likert Scale to measure students perception of reading problem, ranging from never (1 point), sometimes (2 point), often (3 point), always (4 point). The result shows that the majority of the students have problems in reading comprehension in 5 aspects. The percentage average of each aspect from highest to lowest was the reading comprehension problems related to the Reading Comprehension Process. Second problems is Motivation. Third problems related to Background Knowledge. Fourth related to Lack Reading Strategies. The last problems related to Language Knowledge. From the results, it can be concluded that students of the eight semester at English Education Study Program still have reading comprehension problems.Keywords: Reading comprehension problems, TOEFL Test

Challenges and Problems of Reading Comprehension Experienced by EFL Learners

“…Putting it in the literature, numerous other EFL contexts are not flawless. Research shows similar trends in the following studies: Thao and Tham (2018) and Van (2021) in Vietnam, Kasim and Raisha (2017), Satriani (2018), Febriani, Elfrida, andJayanti (2019) in Indonesia, Kyung-Rahn Kim (2021) and Chandran and Shah (2019) in Malaysia, Eltayb (2021), Hassan andDweik (2021), Abu Abeeleh, Al-Ghazo andAl-Sobh (2021) in Jordan, and Al-Qahtani (2016) and Khan, Shahbaz, Kumar, and Khan (2020) in the Saudi context. Reading problems in such contexts and the context under scrutiny are more or less identical.…”

“…In the Indonesian context, too, Satriani (2018) found that students face problems in reading comprehension because of many factors such as lack of motivation, long and unfamiliar texts, and complex Grammar and sentence structure. One more study on the Indonesian situation was by Febriani, Elfrida, and Jayanti (2019) to explore the reading difficulties. The study examined 70 English major students who had TOEFL as a required subject.…”

The Problems Faced by Physiotherapy Students and Their Causes in Completing Reading Comprehension Section of ITP TOEFL

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Students’ Difficulties in Answering Reading Comprehension Questions of Report Text at Third Grade of SMPN 1 Bengkulu Selatan

“…In reading, there is one important ability namely reading comprehension. Since each lesson is inextricably linked to the act of reading, reading comprehension is necessary in every topic (Febriani, 2019). According to Bobby (2020) reading comprehension is a skill to understand the meaning of sentences, the ideas and the relationships between ideas conveyed in a piece of writing.…”