Difficulties and Solutions of Reading English Facing Freshmen Students at Al-Balqa Applied University

Abstract

The study aims at finding out the reading difficulties faced by freshmen students who learn English at several colleges at BU and suggest solutions for these difficulties. To achieve this purpose, the study tries to answer the following research questions:What are the reading difficulties faced by freshmen students who learn English as a foreign language at BU?What are the proposed solutions for reading English difficulties? The sample of the study includes 400 students who learn English in the 1st year at different colleges at BU. The researcher selected a sample of 200 EFL learners from the population of the study to apply the treatment in the first semester of the 2022-2023 academic year. The researcher developed a questionnaire as a data collection instrument that included a number of items about difficulties of reading English answered by the participants. The study showed different reading difficulties faced by the students and suggested solutions for them.