John, Pahamzah and syafrizal, syafrizal (2021) Students’ Difficulties in Reading Comprehension at Junior High School Level. LINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA. pp. 6340-6354. ISSN 2295-5739

Text Students Difficulties in Reading Comprehension at Junior High School Level.pdf Download (549kB)

Abstract

This research focuses on the difficulties faced by the first grade students of Junior High School Level in reading comprehension. The objectives of the research were to find out the difficulties faced by the first grade students of Junior High School 2 Serang City and the factors of difficulties in reading comprehension. Descriptive quantitative was applied as the method in this research, where the test and questionnaire were used as the instruments of the data. The test consisted of 20 items of question divided into five types of questions, which were main idea, detail information, making inferences, locating reference and vocabulary. Index difficulty and percentage were used to analyze the data. The result of the test showed that the majority of first grade students of Junior High School 2 Serang City found difficulties including answering main idea, making inference, and locating reference questions. The most difficult aspect faced by the students of Junior High School 2 Serang City was finding main idea questions, because the located main idea was difficult to find. Moreover, based on the students’ responses in questionnaire, they mostly got difficulties in understanding vocabulary, poor mastery of grammar, the difficulty in understanding long sentences, lack of knowledge of strategies in reading skill.

Actions (login required)

View Item