TheStudents’ Difficulties in Reading Comprehension

KAIF, SITI RAHMATIA (2018) TheStudents’ Difficulties in Reading Comprehension. S1 thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MAKASSAR.

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Abstract

This research investigated students' difficulties in reading comprehension. The research questions were (1) what are the linguistic difficulties faced by the students’ SMK Negeri 3 Baubau in reading comprehension? (2)what are the non-linguistic difficulties faced by students of SMK Negeri 3 Baubau in reading comprehension? The purpose of this research is to find out the linguistics and non-linguisticsdifficulties faced by the students of SMK Negeri 3 Baubau in class reading comprehension. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of the research were consisted of 28 students in which the researchers divided the students into seven groups who were interviewed as research subjects. In collecting the data, the researcher used several procedures namely observation, interview, audio recording and documentation. Three times meetings of EFL classroom interaction were observed.Researcher was using audio recordings and documentation. Records of interviews transcribed and analyzed with matches to: (1) linguistic difficulties encountered by the students in reading comprehension and; (2) Non-linguistic difficulties encountered by the students in reading comprehension. The results of the research indicated that: (1) the linguistic difficulties encountered by the students of SMKN 3 BauBau in reading comprehension are: morphological aspects (word formation); syntax (sentence formation); and semantic aspects (meaning); and (2) the non-linguistic difficulties encountered by the students of SMKN 3 BauBau in reading comprehension are: (psychological aspect) that is the lack of learning spirit of the students; (aspect of learners) that is the intensity to repeating lessons very less from students; (teacher aspect) that is teacher skill in processing materials and method is still lack; (aspects of facilities and infrastructure) that is the function of teaching aids is still not maximized; (method aspect) that is method of activating learners still less attention; (time aspect) that is less good time management by students; (aspect of support) is the lack of business power of schools in realizing the learning program about foreign languages. So, based on the result above the researcher conclude that the students’ are still having a lot of difficulties in reading comprehension.

Item Type:	Thesis (S1)
Subjects:	PASCASARJANA > BAHASA INGGRIS (S2)
Divisions:	PROGRAM PASCASARJANA
Depositing User:	UPT PERPUSTAKAAN UNM
Date Deposited:	29 Mar 2018 03:30
Last Modified:	29 Mar 2018 03:30
URI:	http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/6310

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