Difficulties faced by secondary school students in learning the skill of reading in English from the point of view of their teachers

Abstract

   The English language is one of the most important languages ​​in the world in our present era, as possessing and learning it is necessary to keep pace with the pace of science and development. Therefore, many researchers and those interested in this aspect have devoted themselves to studying it and studying the challenges and difficulties that students face in learning it, and one of those studies is this study, which aims to determine And to know the extent of the difficulties that our students suffer from within educational institutions while learning the English language, the study was conducted on a sample of teachers with a total number of (98) male and female teachers (49) males and (49) females, using the questionnaire as a tool for scientific research.

     It was also used This study used a number of statistical methods, including the arithmetic mean, the standard deviation, the relative weight, the Pearson correlation coefficient, the Cronbach’s Alpha reliability coefficient, the reliability coefficient using the split-half method, and the t-test. The results indicated that there are major difficulties facing our children within educational institutions while learning the skill of reading in the language. English at a number of levels and levels, represented in academic curricula, in terms of their usefulness and compatibility with the student’s inclinations, their rigidity, inflexibility, density, and difficulty, as well as the presence of problems and difficulties related to educational means in terms of their availability, the teacher’s ability to use them and the extent of their compatibility with the given curricula, and some Other problems related to the student himself in terms of his unwillingness to learn the English language, his lack of motivation in learning it, the fear of making a mistake, his lack of self-confidence, and some problems related to the teacher in terms of his inability to convey information well, his lack of mastery of the English language, and his use of teaching methods.

   Traditional methods that are not in line with the academic curricula, the student’s inclinations and his absorptive capacity, in addition to the teaching methods, their lack of diversity, the inability of teachers to master and use them, and finally the inability of teachers to use and choose appropriate teaching methods. The results of this study also resulted in the absence of statistically significant differences in the level of Responses of the study sample members, which are attributed to the gender variable (male/female).