5.1 CONCLUSIONS
5.2.4 Students do not pay much attention on English reading strategies learning
Ulfa (2012) points out that the English scores of most students are below the minimum proficiency standards. This means that students' basic English knowledge is below average, affecting their reading comprehension. It may not be easy to describe exactly what the English reading test examined, but the students who took part in the study seemed to have a clear idea of why they could not get high scores. The descriptions are as follows:
The lack of vocabulary is still a huge obstacle for students. The 3 passages of this English reading test contained many unfamiliar words, so it is a big obstacle for students understand the whole passage meaning. The context of each passage was too
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long and the exam time was only one hour. Therefore, they don't have enough time to read and they can't quickly locate the answer to each question, they need spend much more time think about and find the where the answer is.
Sentence insert questions were the biggest problem for them. This question type tests student’s understanding of the logic in the passage and also tests their ability to understand the grammatical connections from one sentence to another, so as long as they do not understand the meaning of the whole article or the paragraph in which the sentence insert question appears has many unfamiliar words, they are likely to make mistakes in this question.
Inference questions were also the items with the most mistakes. Inference is the process of drawing conclusions based on existing evidence and prior knowledge and experience. Inference questions are the types of questions that involve reading between sentences. When students are asked to educate guesses, they often fin the tasks too difficult. because the answers are not be explicit. Students must draw logical conclusions from the clues in the text and their own experiences. Therefore, it is a great challenge for students to test their ability to grasp the article as a whole. In brief, they need to have a clear understand of detail questions, identify purpose and main idea questions are asked to test this high level reading skill.
All the students interviewed thought that having good reading methods could help them improve their reading comprehension and make fewer mistakes. They thought they could rely on this shortcut to quickly make the right answers for their own achievements.
Almost all the interviewees felt that the reading method explained by the
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