Teachers’ Perceptions of Reading Comprehension Difficulties among EFL Learners

Abstract

The reading comprehension is regarded as one of the fundamental language skill that an EFL learner must perform. In fact, it is not an easy skill since most of learners face many reading problems. This study aimed at finding out the difficulties that teachers suffer with their learners during the reading process. It, also, aimed at searching for effective strategies to help teachers to enhance the learners’ reading comprehension level. The present research work is built upon two hypotheses. First, it hypothesis that the appropriate and correct use of reading strategies by 4th year middle school teachers would help to prevent the reading comprehension difficulties. Second, the reading strategies and techniques the teachers mainly used may enhance EFL learners level. To this end, the data were collected by one research instrument that is an online questionnaire. It has been answered by 23 teachers. The results obtained from this study show that, actually, learners encounter major problems in the process of reading. On the basis of these results, pedagogical implications were suggested