Decoding Meaning in Reading Comprehension Module/ EFL Classes: Factors that Cause Difficulties and Strategies that Fulfill the Purpose

This study is titled "Decoding Meaning in Reading Comprehension Module/ EFL Classes: Factors that Cause Difficulties and Strategies that Fulfill the Purpose". Although students may know the denotative meaning of all words and phrases within a sentence or a passage, they fail in catching the right interpretation of them. Therefore, this study aims at considering the problems that are associated with the decoding process of meaning, and recommending the strategies that help in deriving the accurate meaning of words and larger units in texts. Decoding meaning of words, and deriving the accurate theme of larger units in texts are very challenging tasks, especially for EFL learners. These challenges in Reading Comprehension module can be noticeably observed in EFL classes. To address this problem, this study considers the difficulties that EFL students face, and examines the factors that cause failure in decoding the accurate meaning. As a consequence, the indicated factors can function as a basis to recommend the most manipulated strategies that can contribute in the process of decoding meaning. This study will be a significant endeavor in developing the English language learners' reading comprehension skill in a way that can help both EFL teachers and students to get familiar with the factors that impede the process of decoding meaning, and gain insight into the strategies that engage in that process.