2. Introduction:
• Reading helps in mental development and is known to stimulate the muscles of the eyes.
• Students can tell how their teachers teach reading.
• In their talk about reading, many of them explained that some school teachers ask the whole 3 class
to repeat after them, then one by one to sound out words.
• Sometimes they read for the class and then ask students one-by-one to read loudly. Sometimes they
focus on every single word, how it is pronounced, and what it means.
3. Difficulties with Reading:
• In fact, many parents want to know where and why the reading process breaks down.
• Although problems may occur in any area and there are many difficulties with reading,
decoding, comprehension, retention are the roots of reading problems in the view of
many experts.
4. Statement of the Problem:
• From the researcher’s experience as a teacher, it can be found that many students who
learn English suffer from reading and find it difficult.
• This is because of the problems associated with learning a foreign language such as:
misuse of tone, punctuation marks and other reading difficulties.
5. Purpose of the Study:
• The aim of the study is to pinpoint the reading difficulties that face some students
studying EFL and to find some remedies for these difficulties.
• To accomplish this aim, the researcher conducted this study and applied it to the teachers
of English and their 10th graders.
6. Questions of the Study:
This study attempts to answer these questions:-
What are the difficulties in reading that face the 10th graders as perceived by students?
What are the proposed remedies for the reading difficulties in English as perceived by the 10th
grade students?
What are the difficulties in reading that faced the 10th graders as perceived by English teachers?
What are the proposed remedies for the reading difficulties as perceived by teachers of English?
7. Significance of the Study:
• The importance of the study arising from the importance of finding remedies for reading
problems because most of the students and the teachers of English complain about reading
difficulties such as comprehension difficulties, coding, decoding among other difficulties.
• The researcher believes that the results of this study will be beneficial to teachers as well
as students who learn English as foreign language.
