Challenges of English Reading for Senior High Students. Problems

Case Study from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2, language: English, abstract: This study seeks to investigate the causes of the poor performance of five senior high schools students in the Comprehension of English. It is a case study of the Wa Municipality. The purpose is to find out whether indeed the senior high students perform poorly in English comprehension and why. In carrying out this task, about fifteen English Language teachers and three hundred students were sampled from five senior high schools in the Wa Municipality for the study. The research design used here is a case study and the instruments used for collecting the data were test item and questionnaire. From the test conducted for 15 teachers of English, ten out of the fifteen selected teachers representing 66% percent indicated that reading difficulty among students is one of the factors contributing to the abysmal performance of senior high school students in English comprehension. Many students find it difficult to read hence their inability to understand comprehension passages.