DIFFICULTIES AND SOLUTIONS ON LEARNING READING SKILL OF THE SECOND YEAR NON ENGLISH MAJORED STUDENTS AT UTEHY

Abstract

Reading skill has played a very important part in learning a foreign language. However, most students seem to face many difficulties in this skill. This study was conducted to find out difficulties and solutions on learning reading skill for non English majored students at Hung Yen University of Technology and Education (UTEHY). To achieve the aims of the study, qualitative methodology was chosen and two methods of data collection including reflective journal and survey were employed. The participants of the study comprised 40 second year students who were chosen randomly at UTEHY. Basing on the data collected, many students have low interest and motivation in reading English text, besides, the difficulties in reading of the students come from the lack of vocabulary and grammar, lack of techniques for reading, poor working memory, low motivation, these lead to the problems of learning reading skill. However, some solutions for the problems were also found out in the result.