An Analysis Of Students’ Difficulties In Reading Comprehension At 8TH Grade Student In Smp N 1 Dimembe

ALVANDO R. PANDEAN; Elisabeth Z.  Oroh; Tirza A.  Kumayas

doi:10.36582/jotell.v3i12.10893

Authors

ALVANDO R. PANDEAN UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MANADO
Elisabeth Z. Oroh UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MANADO
Tirza A. Kumayas UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MANADO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36582/jotell.v3i12.10893

Keywords:

Student, Difficulties, Reading, Comprehension.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out, what are the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension at 8^th grade student in SMP N 1 Dimembe. The researcher used qualitative research with a qualitative descriptive design involving 29 student of class 8^th C and for the interviews the researcher took six students as the informants. Information collection was carried out through observation, interviews, and documentation. There are 3 stages of data analysis, first is data condensation, second, data display, third, drawing and verifying conclusions.In analyzing the data, the researcher finds out the difficulty by the student in reading comprehension namely: difficulties to understanding the meaning of the word, the difficulties to understand the long sentence within the text, difficulties in understanding the main idea, difficulties in understanding the grammar, and difficulties to create the inferences. After analyzing the data, the results showed that students still had difficulty in reading

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