EFL Children’s Perception on Reading

Abstract

Reading has a very significant effect towards individuals’ life. English in
Indonesia as a foreign language, so there are many possibilities which the English
language students get difficulties in understading reading text. EFL young learners are
also still struggling to overcome their reading problems. This research was conducted to
find out the EFL children’s reading problem. The data were collected through
questionnare and explained descriptively. The questionnare consists of ten questions
which is made based on the rubric of reading. The respondents of this research were the
20 students from the fourth grade. The results of the research that the EFL children’s
reading problem are students seldom pay attention to punctuation in reading English,
students always have difficulty to distinguish the pronunciation of words in English,
students always need a long time to understand the reading text in English, students
never look for the main idea of the reading text which they read, students have poor
reading habit because they unusual read in English or seldom read in English, students
seldom even never understand the grammar structures in English when reading, students
never even seldom pay attention to the form or the content of the reading text which they
read, students never apply any strategies in reading English, students lack of vocabulary
when reading English so that they need a dictionary to comprehend the reading text in
English, and students do not like or not interested reading English because they are
seldom reading in English. Thus, the questionnare show the EFL children’ reading
problem.