Challenges of Dealing with Students with Reading Difficulties There are a lot of challenges facing the teachers while dealing with students with reading difficulties. The aim of reading is comprehension and many students with reading difficulties suffering from the lack of the aspect of comprehension which creates a big problem for teachers when teaching them . These challenges include teaching sounds, shortage of materials, and inadequate time that needs to teach reading and mother tongue. Lerner (2006)
A study " Reading difficulties in grade six learners and challenges faced by teachers in teaching reading" which conducted by Linda Mwanamukubi (2013) aimed to discover the factors that contribute to causing reading difficulties among the learners of grade six and the challenges faced by teachers in teaching reading. The sample contained 206 participants from 10 schools in Chadiza and Chipata districts of the Eastern province of Zambia by applying quantitative and qualitative research designs and
Introduction 1.1 Background A teacher’s perspective on how to assist learners with reading difficulties. Reading is a fundamental skill for every individual in today’s literate societies where the written word carries most of the communication between individuals and societies. Reading is the basic tool for education. Children who have the ability to read, learn easier and therefore do better at school, With regular reading, the child develops its mind; it develops language skills; it develops the imagination
The aim of the current study was to investigate the reasons behind Saudi learners’ poor reading skills. To this end, the objectives were to identify the reading habits of Saudi English as a Foreign Language high school learners, to understand the extent to which Saudi high learners use reading comprehension skills and to explore the perceptions of learners, teachers and supervisors regarding Saudi learners’ reading abilities. The study sample consisted of 40 Saudi high school students, 30 teachers
Reading and learning to read are the prevailing topics among instructors since the influence our society. It is clear that the ability to read is one of the significant factors that contribute to the student’s success. Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing by developing learners’ phonemic awareness. Phonics is absolutely essential for helping children begin to read. This study investigated the effect of analogy phonics and phonics approach through spelling on reading skill in
of many students in Turkey, students might face some difficulties when learning the language. Due to the fact that this study is small-scale research, it does not represent the population of Turkey. In this research, six adult L2 learners demonstrate outstanding levels of difficulties or challenges in certain fields such as speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Each of the six students is aware of their own difficulties and weaknesses. The finding indicated that all students
introduction: Reading is the process of getting meaning from a series of written symbols. In Reading, our eyes ,our brain is work. Reading sometimes is silent or sometimes can be aloud which other people can hear. Reading is a receptive skill but when we read a text aloud is also a productive skill. As I mentioned , reading comprehension is getting meaning from a text; without understanding the meaning , reading is like a simple words that line from left to right. Reading have several faces which
dyslexia have difficulties in reading because they have poor word decoding skills. Their difficulty in decoding words in most cases is due to problems processing the phonological sounds of words. As such dyslexia can be characterized as a disturbance in language function, which leads to difficulties in reading and the lack of reading leads to poor writing abilities (Helga Sigurmundsdóttir & Steinunn Torfadóttir, n.d.). As such students who are dyslexic are mainly struggling with difficulties in their
The Dual-Route and Triangle Models of Reading for Phonological Dyslexia and Surface Dyslexia Dyslexia syndrome is an important topic in psychology. It is characterised by difficulty with learning to read and other deficits in performing some cognitive activities, such as word recognition, spelling, and phonological recoding, which translates groups of letters into phonological forms. Dyslexia can be innate or acquired after a stroke, brain damage, or atrophy. There are four forms of acquired dyslexia:
describe the meaning of dyslexia. According to the European Dyslexia association, Dyslexia is a difference in acquiring reading, spelling, and writing skills that is neurological in origin (Claudia Cappa, 2011). The cognitive difficulties that cause this differences can also affect organizational skills, calculation abilities and others. It may be caused by a combination of difficulties in phonological processing, working memory, rapid naming, sequencing and the automaticity of basic skills. Moreover