Analisis Kesulitan Pembelajar EFL Dalam Mempelajari Pemahaman Membaca

This study aims to find out the difficulties faced by the EFL learners and the
factors that have caused the difficulties of EFL learners in studying reading
comprehension. This study used qualitative design. The data were collected by
using library research. In collecting the data, the researcher used six steps: 1)
searched valid data and resources relevant with the topic, 2) understanding the
content of the available sources, 3) finding out the key information of the sources,
4) taking notes for the essentials information., 5) elaborating the information
found from the resources, 6) organizing the described data into their
classifications. Based on the findings from the 9 academic writings, the researcher
concludes that the difficulties of reading comprehension students encounter are
determining main idea, locating reference, understanding vocabulary, making
inference, and detail information. From the five difficulties, it is found out the
most two difficulties were determining main idea (25%) and understanding
vocabulary (25%). It is also found from the findings that the difficulties of reading
comprehension are related to the three factors which are learners background,
teaching technique, and learners environment. Apparently, learners background
become the most appearing difficulties factor for EFL learners with 45% from the
data collected. In conclusion, EFL learners in studying reading comprehension
still have many difficulties. The various aspects and processes of reading
comprehension need to be studied more deeply to lead to a good comprehension.