Reading Difficulties In Students Research Articles

Reading Ability and a Comparison of Reading and Listening Comprehension for Students Aged 16–22 with Intellectual Disability

ABSTRACT Many studies have examined students with reading and writing difficulties. However, relatively little research has examined reading difficulties in students with intellectual disabilities (ID). The present study included 70 students, 46 with mild and 24 with moderate ID, from six different upper secondary schools for students with ID in southern Sweden. The study had the following aims: first to investigate the students’ reading ability, and second to compare students’ reading and listening abilities. The results revealed that few of the students reached the average decoding and reading comprehension levels for grade 3 students in compulsory school. Furthermore, students generally performed better on listening comprehension than reading comprehension, and this benefit was particularly prominent for students with moderate ID. These findings suggest that systematically practicing listening comprehension may help students with ID increase text assimilation. However, more research is needed to confirm this possibility.

Initial Reading Difficulties in Second-Grade Elementary School Students

Beginning reading is an ability that students must master in elementary school. In the implementation process, students who still have difficulty in beginning reading are sometimes found. These difficulties become an obstacle in the student's learning process because success in mastering reading skills at the initial reading stage will impact the development of subsequent reading skills. This research aims to analyze the types of initial reading difficulties in students, the factors that influence initial reading difficulties in students, and the efforts made by teachers to overcome initial reading difficulties in second-grade elementary school students. This research uses descriptive qualitative methods. Data collection techniques are done through interviews, observation, tests, and documentation. The study results showed that three second-grade students had difficulty reading initially. In research, it is known that the types of initial reading difficulties in students are: (a) not fluent in reading, (b) many errors in reading, (c) difficulty distinguishing similar letters, (d) inability to understand symbols sounds. Factors that influence students' initial reading difficulties are physiological, intellectual, environmental, and psychological factors. Efforts made by teachers to overcome students' initial reading difficulties are: (a) giving assignments to students, (b) providing additional hours after school, (c) preparing reading learning media such as alphabet letter posters, letter cards, and books that support students' initial reading ability, (d) teaching using the alphabet method.

ANALISIS KESULITAN SISWA DALAM MEMBACA PERMULAAN DI KELAS 1 SEKOLAH DASAR

Reading skill is an aspect that exists in the language skills of elementary school students which must always be mastered by students. Difficulty reading is also a distraction and a barrier that can hinder an aspect of students' reading ability. The purpose of this study is to analyze students' difficulties in reading beginning in grade 1 of elementary school. Researchers used qualitative research methods using qualitative descriptive types. The research location was carried out in June 2023 at SD Negeri Cimone 6, with a total of 31 students. Data collection methods that will be used by researchers are observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of the study showed that students at SDN 6 Cimone who had difficulty reading beginning were grade 1 students. The type of students' initial reading difficulty was recognizing letters with almost the same shape. Beginning reading difficulties experienced by students are caused by internal factors and external factors. Efforts made by the teacher to reduce reading difficulties in students are by providing additional hours and designing learning that increases student enthusiasm for learning.

Analisis Kesulitan Membaca Permulaan pada Peserta Didik Kelas II Sekolah Dasar Negeri 30 Pontianak Selatan

This study aims to describe the types of early reading difficulties, the causes of early reading difficulties, and explain how teachers overcome early reading difficulties in second grade students. This research use desciptive qualitative approach. The data analysis technique used is the Creswell model which includes four stages, namely preparing data, coding, using code to build descriptions and themes, and showing how these descriptions and themes will be written in a qualitative narrative or report. The results of this study indicate that the types of early reading difficulties in students are not able to recognize and pronounce the letters of the alphabet, difficulty distinguishing the same letters, difficulty reading one consonant letter and one vowel letter, difficulty reading open syllables, difficulty reading syllables into words, and reading is still stuttering. The causes of early reading difficulties are interest factors, motivational factors, parental factors, and teacher factors. The teacher's way of overcoming the difficulty of early reading is by training and familiarizing students to read in their spare time or at school hours in approximately 10 minutes.

Word- and Text-Level Reading Difficulties in Students With Dyslexia

The purpose of this study was to examine whether group-based differences exist in word- and text-level reading in a clinical sample of students with dyslexia, and to shed light on the cognitive processes supporting these essential skills. Second- through seventh-grade students were administered a battery of standardized measures of cognitive processing skills (phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming [RAN], and verbal short-term memory), word reading skills (decoding and word identification), oral text reading (fluency and comprehension), and silent text reading (fluency and comprehension). Word- and text-level reading skills were used to place students into the following groups: text fluency deficit, globally impaired, and partially remediated. Results replicated the existence of a text fluency deficit group. Reader group differences in terms of cognitive processing skills were less pronounced than expected, with only phonological awareness differentiating among them. Phonological awareness and RAN emerged as the important contributors to reading skill, though their relative contributions varied across word- and text-level measures. Together, these results point to importance of considering text-level reading processes across modality in both research and clinical contexts.

Testing ICT-based Learning Model 'Creative Reading’ as A Trigger of Children’s Metalinguistic Awareness in Learning English

Testing ICT-based Learning Model 'Creative Reading’ as A Trigger of Children’s Metalinguistic Awareness in Learning English

Computer-assisted instruction to prevent early reading difficulties in students at risk for dyslexia: Outcomes from two instructional approaches

The relative effectiveness of two computer-assisted instructional programs designed to provide instruction and practice in foundational reading skills was examined. First-grade students at risk for reading disabilities received approximately 80 h of small-group instruction in four 50-min sessions per week from October through May. Approximately half of the instruction was delivered by specially trained teachers to prepare students for their work on the computer, and half was delivered by the computer programs. At the end of first grade, there were no differences in student reading performance between students assigned to the different intervention conditions, but the combined-intervention students performed significantly better than control students who had been exposed to their school's normal reading program. Significant differences were obtained for phonemic awareness, phonemic decoding, reading accuracy, rapid automatic naming, and reading comprehension. A follow-up test at the end of second grade showed a similar pattern of differences, although only differences in phonemic awareness, phonemic decoding, and rapid naming remained statistically reliable.