Problems Faced in Reading Comprehension of EconomicsStudent at STIE Darul Falah Mojokerto

Abstrak

Reading comprehension is one of the competence skill in language learning. this research is conducted to describe the problems faced in reading comprehension by the economic student of STIE Darul Falah Mojokerto. The methods that was used in this research was descriptive quantitative. The population of the study was economics students of Accountant in first semester which consist of 19 students. The data collection is acquired through test, giving questionare and interview.
The result of the study showed that the problems/difficulties faced by economics student in the first semester of STIE Darul Falah Mojokerto in reading comprehension test are difficulty in answering main idea questions, difficulty in answering making inference, and difficulty in answering locating reference questions. And also there are some factors that influence the economics student in comprehending English text such as 1). difficult in knowing the grammatical of sentence like using subject pronoun, object pronoun, and possessive pronoun of sentences in the text, 2). Difficult to understand long sentences, and 3). Lack of knowledge about the strategies of reading comprehension