An Analysis of The Student's Difficulties in Reading Comprehension at The Second Grade in Junior High School of Al Azhar Ajung

Digna Arisshio, Risma Miranda (2024) An Analysis of The Student's Difficulties in Reading Comprehension at The Second Grade in Junior High School of Al Azhar Ajung. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KIAI HAJI ACHMAD SIDDIQ JEMBER.

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Digna Arisshio Risma Miranda, 2023. An Analysis of the Student's Difficulties in Reading Comprehension at the Second Grade in Junior High School of Al Azhar Ajung
Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Student Difficulties
Difficulty in understanding reading was a crucial problem to solve because reading is considered a basic needed in aspects of life, especially in learning English. This research conducted at MTs Al Azhar Ajung and researcher made observations where students said that English reading comprehension was difficult. Reading comprehension is a fundamental skill necessary for academic success and overall development because it involves the ability to understand and interpret written texted, extract information, make inferences and analyze content critically. However, many students experience difficulties in reading comprehension, which could hinder their learned progress and achievement.
There were three research questions in this research, (1) what are student's difficulties in reading comprehension at MTs Al Azhar Ajung?, (2) how did the student's difficulties in reading occur at MTs Al Azhar Ajung?, and (3) why did the student's difficulties in reading comprehension occur in the way they do at MTs Al Azhar Ajung?.
This study used a qualitative method and the research was carried out at MTs Al Azhar Ajung. The population in this study was all Students’ with totally 22 and English teachers. The sample in this study was 8th grade students, interviews with 3 students and one English teacher. The researcher used three kinds of instruments to collect the data, they were observation, interview and documentation. The researcher used interactive analysis model to analyze the qualitative of three stepped, such as: data reducing, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification.
The findings of the research were the student’s difficulties reading comprehensions because there were many words that they had not previously known and students had not knew the meant of the sentence. Students' difficulties in reading comprehension occured due to aspects of difficulties to find the main idea in the reading texted, understand vocabulary, make conclusions from the reading and understand the entire reading or the implied meant of the reading texted. The Difficulties in reading comprehension occured when the students were able to worked on difficult questioned given by the teacher, students lacked of interested in reading English texted and lacked of understanding in vocabulary.

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