Difficulties in doing Matching Headings task in IELTS Reading test of first-year English majors at Quy Nhon University
Abstract
The research “Difficulties in doing Matching Headings task in IELTS Reading test of first-year English majors at Quy Nhon University” was carried out to help English freshmen realize their problems when answering Matching Headings questions in IELTS reading comprehension format. The subjects were 249 first-year English majors belonging to six classes of the course 44 of Foreign Languages Department at Quy Nhon University. The questionnaire which consists of ten close-ended and open-ended questions was utilized to collect the data. The findings suggest that the first-year English majors encounter lots of difficulties in doing Matching Headings task in IELTS Reading test. The most common one is related to lack of vocabulary. Others are related to topics, lack of time, lengthy passages, and finding main ideas. The last and least problematic one is similar headings. Another conclusion which can be drawn is that a variety of factors may contribute to those difficulties.