Investigating English Reading Comprehension Problems Faced by Students of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazir Abad
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Investigation, Students Problems, English Reading Comprehension.Abstract
This present study of article aims to the investigation of English reading comprehension problems faced by students of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazir Abad. The main aim of this research study is to find out the difficulties of the students in English reading comprehension. The research method was used in quantitative approach. The technique or an instrument of this study was a questionnaire for collecting data of the sample. The questionnaire was designed into Likert-scale with 15 items and provided to the 40 students of 2nd year students from 21 Batch of BS English Department. According to the student’s responses, the data was analyzed into SPSS version-21. The findings and results of this study shows that students were facing problems in reading comprehension, Such as, figuring out meanings of the new words, distinguishing the main ideas from supporting ideas in the reading text, they usually word to word translate when they do not understand the total meaning of the text, they have poor comprehension, they don’t have mastery in vocabulary, they keep thinking that other students are better at language than us, they feel stressed when they read texts in English and they feel confused to understand the text. This research study aims to give the awareness of the reading strategies and the knowledge of reading comprehension for the students that can improve their problems in English reading comprehension.
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