• Tayyaba Tajamal

  Author

The study is to analyze the difficulties in reading comprehension among EFL
(English as a Foreign Language) learners and strategies to overcome those difficulties. The
objectives of the study are to find out the difficulties faced by students in reading comprehension
and strategies to improve reading comprehension. It will increase awareness among teachers
regarding the problems in reading comprehension which students come across and enable
teachers to use reading comprehension strategies. The researcher has used ‘Quantitative
Method’. Questionnaire is used to collect data. Sample of the study is included 30 students. The
quantitative data is tabulated and analyzed by using SPSS Statistics. It is evaluated that students
of English language have problems in reading comprehension as they are unable to understand
the words, long sentence structure and complicated vocabulary. Neither they are able to find out
central idea nor specific information provided in the paragraphs. The findings of the study also
reveal that the students at Intermediate level are quite unaware about the use of reading
comprehension strategies such as Pre-reading, While-Reading and Post-reading. The
recommended strategies are: predicting, analyzing, inferring, summarizing, questioning and
visualization.

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