English reading comprehension hardships among ordinary level students of Ugandan schools.

Abstract

In the English teaching and learning process, there are four skills that are identified as very important; listening, speaking, reading and writing. The Ugandan government places English as a compulsory subject for junior and senior high school. In practice, teaching English is not too maximal. Reading skills in this case of English texts is very important because by reading it gives the opportunity to absorb other existing knowledge. Reading comprehension is an advanced level of reading skills. Senior high school students are expected to have mastered the comprehension skills of reading English texts at an ordinary level. This is because most likely at the class of senior four these students are required to buy and read English reference books. Therefore, research that reveals the hardship that exist in the teaching and learning process of Reading Comprehension English texts needs to be done. Data sources will be articles about teaching English, focusing in the hardship of reading comprehension. Data shall be words and sentences from the articles. The analysis technique