The students’ difficulties and the factors affecting them in reading narrative text

Risqiyani, - (2021) The students’ difficulties and the factors affecting them in reading narrative text. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training English Education Department.

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Risqiyani, 2021: The students’ difficulties and the factors affecting them in reading narrative text. Keywords: Students’ Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Narrative 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. Hence, 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 narrative text for tenth grade students of MA Sumber Bungur Pakong Pamekasan? and 2) What are the factors that affect students‟ difficulties in reading narrative text for tenth grade students of MA Sumber Bungur Pakong Pamekasan?. The objectives of this research were to identify the students‟ reading aspects that usually considered as the difficulties in reading narrative text and the factors affecting them. This research applied a qualitative descriptive as research method. It was conducted in MA Sumber Bungur. The selection of participant technique was purposive to choose 8 participants out of 20 students based on the teacher‟s 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 narrative 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 narrative text included the learner‟s background knowledge, teaching technique, and learner‟s environment.

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