மூன்றாம் ஆண்டு மாணவர்கள் வாசிப்பில் ஏற்படுத்தும் சிக்கல்களும்; ஆசிரியர்கள் எதிர் நோக்கும் சவால்களும் (Problems in Reading Faced by Year Three Students and Challenges Faced by Teachers)

Abstract

Reading literacy skills is a basic skill that all primary school students need to learn and master. If these skills are not mastered it will affect their learning process. Therefore, this study was undertaken to determine the problem faced year three students to mastering of literacy skills for reading in Tamil Language. Apart from that this study also reveals the challenges faced by year three Tamil Language teacher while teaching reading literacy to students. This study was conducted with 8 Tamil language teachers in Malaysia from urban and rural schools. This is a qualitative study using semi - structured interview method. Research results show that students faced various problems in reading literacy. The common problem students in reading literacy they are unable recognize the Tamil letters as well.  Apart from that, they cannot read words, sentences and lastly passage. In addition, students also cannot pronounce the letters and words in the correct way. Always take leaves to school, lazyness, lack of concentration and parents support, and poor family background make this reading literacy problem it gives more trouble to teacher for solve. Teachers also claim that schools do not provide teaching aids for teaching students in reading literacy. In addition, work loaded make teachers cannot prepare teaching aids for reading activities to students. They suggested the reading teaching aids in form of digital will easyly solve the problem becouse students will give more interest when using it. Therefore, teachers of the Tamil language should play an important role so that students can master the skill of reading.