Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Science and Teacher Profession (ICETeP 2021)

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

Authors
Eka Sustri Harida1, *, Yusni Sinaga1, Sri Rahmadani Siregar1, Nurlija Matondang1, Addini Hayatunnuha Rahmadani2
1Institut Agama Islam Negeri Padangsidimpuan, Padang Sidempuan, Indonesia
2Universitas Islam Negeri Imam Bonjol, Padang, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: ekasustri@iain-padangsidimpuan.ac.id
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Eka Sustri Harida
Available Online 5 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-19-0_16How to use a DOI?
Keywords
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Science and Teacher Profession (ICETeP 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
5 December 2022
ISBN
978-2-494069-19-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-19-0_16How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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