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F. Obstacles in Teaching and learning reading
1. Obstacles of Teaching
The problem in teaching reading is deal with the teaching techniques and the selection of teaching material. According to Teguh, there are Some problems
evidently appear from the teaching practices The problems in teaching reading are:
a. The Mastery of the Basics
The basics knowledge of reading consists of the mastery of basics structural patterns and sufficient vocabulary items. The condition of
teaching reading in Indonesia that the class is generally very large and with only one meeting a week.the teacher himself has to struggle to
understand the text, or teacher does not have an adequate background and habit to read a long English text.
b. The habit of slow reading
Slow readers generally have poor comprehension. If they do not understand a word an a expression, they do not hestitate to look up word
by word in the dictionary so that he reading is very slow. c.
Figuring out inferences, implementation, and main ideas The mastery on these factors will provide students with accurate
inferences, determining implications of what has been read, and identifying accurately main ideas of the text.
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Text selection In the selection text, teachers are not confident to choose the teaching
materials. Teachers mostly rely upon English textbook available by which modifications are not required.
e. Exercises to include
The problem in this matter involve that the teachers do the same ways in discussing one passage to another so that students are boring facing the
same techniques.
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From five problems in teaching reading, there are four include problem in teaching reading except the habit of slow reading because students do not
understand a word an a expression, they do not hesitate to look up word by word in the dictionary.
2. Obstacles of Learning
According to Lundberg, there are some problems in learning reading. The
problems are:
a.
Difficulties in single word reading;
b.
Initial difficulties decoding or sounding out words;
c.
Difficulties reading sight words;
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Dr. Teguh Budiharso, M.Pd, Prinsip dan Strategi Pengajaran Bahasa. Lutfansah Mediatama. Surabaya. 2004. p. 54
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Insufficient phonological processing; that is, the understanding that sentences are comprised of words, words are made up of syllables, and
syllables are made up of individual sounds orphonemes;
e.
Expressive or receptive language difficulties; and
f. Difficulties with comprehension.
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G. Procedure of Teaching Reading by Using story face
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