Elementary school students' difficulties in reading at the beginning of English learning

Abstract

Especially for lower grade students, initial reading skills are very important and are the initial foundation for language skills, understanding all lessons, and the ability to convey information (in written and oral form). There are students who experience difficulty in reading the beginning when doing so. Learning to read is further hampered by this reading difficulty. This initial reading difficulty analysis research was carried out on class III students at SDN Ban Slampar 2. This research was carried out using a qualitative descriptive approach. Interviews, field notes, observations, and data collection methods were used. The results showed that beginning reading included difficulty recognizing letters, omitting or replacing letters, reading individual words, distinguishing between vowels and consonants, combining letters and syllables into one word, and ignoring punctuation