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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Problems of teaching reading in the classroom

The teachers highlighted some of the problems and challenges they encounter in their reading classroom. The problems are identified in order to understand and reflect on their teaching practices.

1. Limited vocabularies
2. Lack of interest in reading
3. Poor background knowledge
4. Students' proficiency level
5. Lack of prior knowledge on the reading topic
6. Low confidence level
7. Poor learning strategies
8. Students' attitude such as laziness, high dependency on the teacher's input
9. Pronunciation
10. Linguistic deficiency-problems in understanding



Norlida, Asliza, Suraya and Norazilawati claimed that teachers' limited time in preparing the lesson plan also one of the contributing problem to their reading classroom. Other weaknesses highlighted on the teacher's part are inappropriate materials selection and limited interaction with the students.

Anisah and the guys also mentioned a controversial statement-students understanding are exam oriented.. hmm...do i got it right? Danger...its war zone if we are talking about our exam oriented culture..

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