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Employs a descriptive survey design with 100 JSSII students drawn from five randomly selected secondary schools. Uses questionnaires on a four-point Likert scale and administers a reading comprehension test for correlational analysis. 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Agbo, Goodluck C. Kadiri*, Joekin Ekwueme\u003Cbr>Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Corresponding Author: Goodluck C. Kadiri, E-mail: [goodluck.kadiri@unn.edu.ng](goodluck.kadiri@unn.edu.ng) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>There has been an outcry concerning Junior Secondary School students’abysmal performance in reading comprehension in internal and external examinations in Nsukka Metropolis; hence, the reason to investigate the factors responsible for this abysmal performance becomes necessary. We adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of this study comprises one hundred (100) Junior Secondary School II students from five (5) randomly selected secondary schools in Nsukka Metropolis. The sampling technique which the researchers adopted was the simple random sampling and utilized questionnaire as research instrument which was developed on a 4-point scale of strongly agree, agree, strongly disagree and disagree. Again, a reading comprehension test was administered to the students for correlational purposes. Statistical analysis was used. The findings showed that students performed very poorly in reading comprehension asa result of inadequate and unqualified language teachers, inadequate instructional materials, poor educational background of both students and parents, and the language style and background of some comprehension texts. The implication is that students’ comprehension ability maybe determined by their ability to recognize individual words in a passage or text, group words into units and relate those units into meaningful sentences or paragraphs. When students are able todo the above, they will surely have a meaningful comprehension of a text at these three distinct levels of comprehension: (i) factual; (ii) interpretative; and (ii) evaluative. Thus the researchers made strong suggestions and recommendations that would mitigate these problems. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: December 02, 2018\u003Cbr>Accepted: March 23, 2019\u003Cbr>Published: April 30, 2019\u003Cbr>Volume: 10 Issue: 2\u003Cbr>Advance access: March 2019 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Investigating,\u003Cbr>Reading Comprehension, Effective, Impediments,\u003Cbr>Junior Secondary School, Educational Background,\u003Cbr>Educational Qualifications. |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nWe are aware of the hue and cry of our students’ poor performance in reading comprehension in private and public examinations. This is probably why Garba (2003: 183) lamentably say that “teaching reading comprehension in L2 classes has met with little or no success.” Reading comprehension is an integral part of the questions students are confronted with in an English language examination. But it seems however that we have not adequately investigated those factors which may be responsible for the students’poor achievement in reading comprehension. According to Garba (2003), the reading teacher operates in a hostile climate where there is a near total lack of meaningful support for teaching of reading coupled with two other factors: cultural and conceptual difficulties as well as inadequate reinforcement of new skills.  \nComprehension has to do with understanding and extracting meaning from spoken communication or materials read. Today’s reading researchers are of the opinion that comprehension is a multifaceted process. Factors such as constructivist beliefs, influential teachers, active readers, text and type of instruction play vital roles in the construction  \nof meaning (Maureen, 2012) . This is a marked change from the 1970s, when Durkin (1978) reported that little if any comprehension instruction occurred in the classroom. Garba (","cbCaichsLcd17tIL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaichsLcd17tIL","pdf",466130,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Background and research motivation\n## Conceptualization of reading comprehension\n## Approaches, contributing factors, and implications","[{\"question\":\"What prompted the study on reading comprehension in Nsukka Metropolis?\",\"answer\":\"Poor performance in reading comprehension in both private and public examinations led to the need to investigate responsible factors.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the study conducted and what data were used?\",\"answer\":\"The study used a descriptive survey design with 100 JSSII students, questionnaire data on a four-point scale, and a reading comprehension test for correlational purposes.\"},{\"question\":\"What factors were found to contribute to students’ poor reading comprehension?\",\"answer\":\"Inadequate and unqualified language teachers, inadequate instructional materials, weak educational background of students and parents, and the language style/background of some comprehension texts.\"}]","Investigating the Impediments to Reading Comprehension in Junior Secondary Schools: Evidence from JSSII Students in Nsukka Metropolis | PDF",1792068404,23]