THE STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN REA
DING
COMPREHENSION SKILL TAUGHT AT SMP RADEN
FATAH BATU
THESIS
By:
AFIF KURNIAWAN
09360159
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
THE STUDENT
S’ PROBLEMS IN READING
COMPREHENSION SKILL TAUGHT AT SMP RADEN
FATAH BATU
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Language Education
By:
AFIF KURNIAWAN
09360159
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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This thesis was written by Afif Kurniawan and was approved on 18 May 2016.
By:
Advisor II, Advisor I,
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This thesis was defended in front of the examiner of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
on 9 August 2016
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University Of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. Poncojari Wahyono, M.Kes.
Examiners: Signatures:
1. Bayu H. Wicaksono, SPd., M.Ed., Ph.D. 1. ………
2. Nina Inayati, S.Pd., M.Ed. 2. ………
3. Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd. 3. ………
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MOTTO AND DEDICATION
Menilai seseorang dari perbuatannya itu belum cukup, tapi nilailah seseorang dari niat mereka melakukan perbuatannya.
Hidup itu sederhana, ambillah keputusan dan jangan pernah menyesalinya. Gunakanlah kedewasaan mu dalam mengambil keputusan itu.
My graduation is dedicated to:
My beloved Mother and Father
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Letter of Authenticity
The undersigned below:
Name : Afif Kurniawan NIM : 09360159
Department : English Language Education
Faculty : Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
I hereby declare that in this thesis there is no any thesis or paper that have been proposed to receive a bachelor degree, and there is no ideas or notions written or published by another person, unless what has been written in this thesis and mentioned in the references.
Malang, 9 Augustus 2016
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Secondly, the researcher sincerely give uncountable gratitude to my advisors, Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd as the first supervisor and Dian Arsitades, M.Pd as the second supervisor who always guide and support me to accomplish this thesis. I also give a special thanks to Triono, S.Pd as the Headmaster of SMP Raden Fatah Batu for permitting him to conduct the research, Miski, S.Pd as the curriculum sector at SMP Raden Fatah Batu for his help and support in conducting this research and Andrea Novenda, S.Pd as English teacher at SMP Raden Fatah Batu for helping and supporting him in conducting this research.
Thirdly, the best regard and gratitude are specially delivered by the researcher to his beloved parents, Karmiani that always support, encourage and pray for him all the time until the researcher accomplish this thesis and my other family members for their support and pray. I also give special thanks for my neighbor who always advise him and support him and burn up his motivation.
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the researcher aware and realize that this thesis has not been perfect yet and still need to be evaluated. But, he hopes that this thesis can give benefits for the reader.
Malang, 16 Mei 2016
The Researcher
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CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study ……… 1
1.2 Research Problem ………...3
1.3 Objective of the Study ………3
1.4 Significant of the Study ………..3
1.5 Scope and Limitation ………..4
1.6 Definition of Key Terms ……….5
CHAPTER II : REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Definition of Reading ……….6
2.2 Reading Process ………...7
2.3 Types of Reading ………8
2.4 The Principles of Reading ………..10
2.5 Strategies of Reading Comprehension ………...12
2.6 Principles for Designing Interactive Reading Techniques ……….19
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2.8 Difficulties in Reading ………23
2.9 Common Causes of Reading Problems ………...25
2.10 The Causes of Poor Reading Comprehension ……….26
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design ………..28
3.2 Research Subject ……….29
3.3 Research Instruments ………..29
3.3.1 Interview ……….. .…30
3.4 Data Collections and Data Analysis ………... 31
CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Research Finding ……….33
4.2 Discussion ………37
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, the researcher present: Background of the study, Research problem, Objective of the study, significant of the study, scope and limitation and definition of key term.
1.1Background of the Study
English is an international language that became the foreign language studied in Indonesia as a compulsory subject. This subject must be taught at junior high school. The students in Indonesia must learn this foreign language as their subject in the class.
Learning to read is important educational goal. It enables us to gain new knowledge, enjoy literature (Elizabeth, 2003:6). Means, it is very important to master the Reading skill. By mastering Reading skill the student can understand about a lot of information in English text such as English Magazine, News Paper, Brochure and the other information that written in English. That information gives a lot of advantages to the student for their future.
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Related to information above, reading is useful for language acquisition. Provide that students more or less understand what they read, the more they read, the better they get at it. Reading also has a positive effect on students‟ vocabulary knowledge, on their spelling and on their writing (Harmer, 2007:99). When we read English text, we can get some advantages. Reading can automatically enrich our vocabulary, spelling and also writing.
Reading texts also provide good models for English writing. At different times we can encourage students to focus on vocabulary, grammar or punctuation. We can also use reading material to demonstrate the way we construct sentences, paragraphs and whole texts. Students then have good models for their own writing (Harmer, 2007:99). This is one of the advantages of reading because reading can improve our writing automatically.
Even though Reading Comprehension skill has been taught for a long time to the Junior High School students, still many of the Junior High School graduates are not able to read and comprehend the text. This fact is so concerning that the researcher is interested to conduct a research about students‟ problem in reading
comprehension skill at Junior High School.
Environmental factors seem to play a role when it comes to reading difficulties, that is, according to one of the teachers as well as the literature. Environmental factors include parents/guardians‟ illiteracy, poor learning
environment and poor teaching (Mwanamukubi, 2013:52)
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structure are regarded as a barrier to understand texts. These two factors may affect their studies at a higher level when they are required to be skillful readers of various English textbooks and other materials. Few researches have been done to investigate students‟ reading problems in these three areas: (a) sentence structure,
(b) vocabulary, and (c) reading comprehension (Chawwang, 2008:38).
From the information above, the researcher wants to study about reading comprehension problem faced by the students. The researcher conducts the research as a title “The Students‟ Problem in Reading Comprehension Skill
Taught at SMP Raden Fatah Batu”. By investigating this research, the researcher
want to help the students especially students of SMP Raden Fatah Batu to improve their reading skill.
1.2Research Problem
At this research, the researcher wants to describe the students‟ problem in
reading comprehension skill. Based on the background of the study, the researcher formulated the research problem as “What are the students‟ problems in reading comprehension skill taught at SMP Raden Fatah Batu?”
1.3Objective of the Study
Based on the research problem, the researcher focuses in his investigation about the students‟ problems in reading comprehension skill taught at SMP Raden
Fatah Batu.
1.4Significant of the Study
The results of this research are expected to describe the students‟ problem
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Fatah Batu. The results of this research are contributed in two ways. They are theoretical and practical ways.
a. Theoretically, this study is expected to be useful for English Teacher, especially teachers who teach at eight grade students of SMP Raden Fatah Batu. Besides, the thesis result also can used by teacher to anticipate and minimize the students problem in the class especially eight grade students at SMP Raden Fatah Batu. Besides, this research is expected to help the students in developing their Reading Comprehension skill. By this research the students especially eight grade students at SMP Raden Fatah Batu can anticipate the mistakes faced by their self in order to minimize their mistakes in reading comprehension skill.
b. Practically, the result of research is expected to give the researcher an experience about finding the students problem in reading comprehension skill at SMP Raden Fatah Batu. Furthermore, this research also is useful to the next researcher as a guide in conducting research that has a relation with this topic.
1.5Scope and Limitation
The scope of this study is one of English skill called Reading Comprehension. That‟s why this research studies about the student‟s problem
Reading Comprehension skill.
The researcher limited on this study about the students‟ problem in reading
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1.6Definition of Key Terms
In order to avoid misunderstanding on the parts of the readers concerning the key terms used in this research, the researcher need to define the following terms which help the study in defining the terms that used in this research.
Furthermore, the researcher will explain the definition of Key term as follow:
1 The students’ problem
The students‟ problem is the students‟ difficulties about the subject. In this
case the problem is about comprehending texts at English subject.
2 Reading Comprehension
The researcher define reading comprehension in this research as an ability by the students of SMP Raden Fatah Batu especially VIII A to read and comprehends the texts.
3 SMP Raden Fatah Batu
