Students' Difficulties in Reading Comprehension at The Eight Grade of MTs. Nurul Islam Banjarmasin Year 2013/2014
Daftar Isi:
- The research describes about the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension at the eighth grade of MTs. Nurul Islam Banjarmasin year 2013/2014. The objective of the research are to find the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension and the factors that influence them. The researcher relies in quantitative method. The subject of this research is all of the students at the eighth grade which are the total number of the students is 37 students. The researcher uses test, questionnaire, observation, interview, and documentary to collect data. The result of the research indicates that in reading comprehension the students have difficulties in finding the main idea of a paragraph, comprehending the supporting idea of a paragraph, finding the factual information from the text, comprehending the reference, and finding the inference of a text. The researcher also found out the factors that influence the five difficulties are: students’ factors: students’ likeness toward English lesson is not high, most of students only sometimes study English at home, they seldom read other English text, they have not joined any English course, students’ vocabulary knowledge is lack, they cannot comprehend the long/complex sentences in the text.. Teacher’s factors: she seldom speaks English when teaching reading English text, seldom teachs how to guess the topic of a text, seldom teachs how to find the main idea of a text, seldom uses other English textbook. Environment’ factor: the classroom situation is noisy.