The Students Difficulties in Reading Descriptive Texts At The Tenth Grade Students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Buleleng

Asy Syaafiyah, Rabi'atul Adawiyah (2024) The Students Difficulties in Reading Descriptive Texts At The Tenth Grade Students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Buleleng. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Rabi’atul Adawiyah Asy Syaafiyah, 2024 : The Students difficulties in Reading Descriptive Texts at Tenth Grade of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Buleleng.
Keywords: Students difficulties, Reading comprehension, Descriotive Text.
Reading comprehension is the ability to process text, understand its meaning, and to integrate with what the reader already knows. In the reading learning process, the student must understand the content of the text to get the information from it. However, there were some difficulties faced by the students in reading English text. Therefore, it is important to know the students difficulties and the factors affecting them in reading as reading is one of important skills that should be mastered by the students.
There were two research questions in this research, those were: 1) what are the students reading aspects that usually considered as the students difficulties in reading descriptive text for tenth grade students of MAN Buleleng? And 2) What are the factors that affect students difficulties in reading descriptive text for tenth grade students of MAN Buleleng?. The objectives of this research were to identify the students reading aspects that usually considered as the difficulties in reading descriptive text and the factors affecting them.
This research applied a qualitative descriptive as research method. It was conducted in MAN Buleleng. The selection of participant technique was purposive to choose 4 participants out of 32 students based on the teachers recommendation. The data were gathered by interview, observation, and document review. While technique and data source triangulation were used to validate data.
The result of the research showed that the students reading aspects that usually considered as the students difficulties in reading descriptive text faced by the students were related to word comprehension that included difficult vocabularies such as synonym, antonym, and reference, sentence comprehension included difficulty finding specific and general information, paragraph comprehension as difficult to determine the main idea, and text comprehension as difficult to make conclusion. While the affecting factors in reading descriptive text included the teaching technique, and learners environment.

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