Investigate Reading Comprehension Problems That Encountered EFL learners at Almergeb University -Faculty of Art and Science Missalata

Abstract

Reading is a basic foundation that enables learners to build their academic skills. It's a receptive and crucial skill that enhances learners' ability in acquiring knowledge and gaining a basis of the sentence's structure, vocabulary, and idioms. This study aims to investigate the challenges that EFL students face during learning reading comprehension. Simultaneously, the main issues that affect students' capability to dominate the materials are explored. Students' difficulties in learning are due to teaching approaches inside the classroom that impact their progress, as well as lack of background knowledge, absences of maintaining reading techniques, and mispronunciation problems. Furthermore, the researcher suggests strategies for improving students' progress and how to overcome this issue. Therefore, the researcher adopted a quantitative approach as the research method and conducted a questionnaire survey on 34 participants from the English department. The results indicated that the inability to maintain effective reading strategies and the lack of awareness from their teachers were the primary factors affecting their academic progress.