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Problems And Strategies In Reading Comprehension

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Chapter One
Introduction
This chapter presents the background of the study, identification of the problems, formulation of the problems, limitation of the problems, research questions, purpose of the research, significance of the research, and outline of the research.
Background
Vocabulary is a tool used in learning English. According to Namaghi and Malekpur (2015), vocabulary is a tool which is really important in reading because without adequate vocabulary knowledge learners cannot understand the information in the reading. According to Yunhao (2011) vocabulary is the main factor for language learning and it is very useful for students majoring in language. It means that the vocabulary plays an important role in language learning especially …show more content…

Yulianto (2016) found that there were seven problems or difficulties in reading comprehension and these problems happened at English Education Department of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. One of them is the meaning of word or vocabulary. Besides, Yulianto (2016) also suggests the students to use more strategies in doing a reading comprehension which means that improving vocabulary is one of the requirements that students have to do before reading comprehension. However, in improving vocabulary, the students are required to use some strategies and it needs to have a research which focuses on finding strategies in learning vocabulary. By this case, it can be concluded that this research is worth to do in order to know what strategies that can be used to improve …show more content…

According to Hazrat and Hessamy (2013), vocabulary is one of the hardest things that EFL students or learners still face. Llerena and Yesenia (2017) state that improving vocabulary requires students to have some learning strategies which mean that the vocabulary will be improved easier by not using memorizing only.
There are some previous experts state that learning vocabulary cannot be done through one strategy only, yet some students still use one strategy only. It means that the researcher is interested in finding the students’ perception on vocabulary learning strategies. Last, the researcher also wants to find out the learning strategies used by the students in improving their vocabulary.
Limitation of the Problem This study focuses only on the perception in vocabulary learning strategies at EED UMY which means that the findings or the results of this research will not reveal the problems faced by students in learning vocabulary. Besides, this study will also select some students at EED of UMY which means that the results of this research will be different from students’ perception from other universities. From the statement above, the findings or the results of this research should be considered by the teachers or students from other universities to use this research in teaching and learning

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