Abstract:
The objective of the research work was to assess the factors affect teaching reading
comprehension in Kurfa Challe Secondary School, grade ten EFL classes. The study
addressed four objectives. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were employed
to analyze the data. Four English teachers and sixty grades ten students participate in the
study. To select the samples, simple random samplings were used. The data were
collected through questionnaire, semi- structured interview and textbook analysis.
Quantitative data were gathered using questionnaire and was analyzed thematically.
Then, qualitative data were gathered through semi- structured interview and textbook
analysis. The findings suggested that the factors, which affected teaching reading
comprehension were such as problem to determine words’ meaning from context, many
students do not bring English textbook to the class, students’ limited vocabulary
knowledge, lack of flexibility, poor education background, low motivation to read,
problem to assimilate the new idea with their previous knowledge, high density of
difficult vocabulary, unengaged in a kind of silent dialogue with writer, the reading texts
are too long to cover them in a single period and to do the various reading activities,
some of the reading texts are too long, great differences in incorporating the different
comprehension questions, and most of students are challenged with poor reading
strategies: Finally, based on the findings, it was recommended that the students should
be read flexibly depending on the type of they are reading and their purpose for reading
its, the reading text need to be related with students’ background culture and their
language proficiency level, the school should be made the students bring the text book to
class, the text should not be too long and full of new words. Moreover, it was
recommended that the teacher should be create a friendly atmospheric in the classroom,
encourage students to personalize the classroom environment, and boosts students to set
their goals.
