The aim of this study was to find out the reading comprehension of descriptive text students in the tenth grade of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro. Therefore, the researcher formulated the problem statement: What students understand in the reading comprehension of descriptive text in tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro. The result of the research is the reading comprehension in the descriptive text of the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro can percentage as follows: 22% review specific information, 13% understand vocabulary, 25%.
Dari temuan di atas dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemahaman membaca teks deskriptif pada siswa kelas X SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro sangat rendah, sehingga perlu dilakukan perbaikan dalam proses belajar mengajar. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kemampuan siswa dalam memahami teks deskriptif pada siswa kelas X SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro. Oleh karena itu, peneliti merumuskan pertanyaan masalah: seperti apakah pemahaman membaca teks deskriptif siswa kelas X SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro.
Temuan dari penelitian ini adalah pemahaman membaca siswa kelas X SMK Muhammadiayh 2 Metro dapat disajikan dalam teks deskriptif sebagai berikut: 22% siswa memahami pemindaian informasi tertentu, 13% siswa memahami kosa kata, 25% siswa memahami mengidentifikasi kata rujukan, 11% mahasiswa memahami kesimpulan dari perkuliahan dan 29% memahami mencari/menemukan ide pokok. Dari temuan di atas dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemahaman membaca siswa pada teks deskriptif di kelas X SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro sangat rendah, sehingga perlu ditingkatkan dalam proses belajar mengajar.
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the Study
- Research Question
- The Objective and Benefit of the Study
- Benefit of the Study
- Prior Research
Students need techniques that can motivate them and increase their abilities, especially in reading skills. In fact, some students with reading comprehension interpret word by word, which is ineffective in reading comprehension. Based on the above data, the researcher found that most of the tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro still have reading problems.
How Motivated Students Comprehend Descriptive Text in Reading Comprehension in Tenth Grade Students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro?. To analyze what is the percentage of students who read with comprehension of descriptive text in tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro 2. To analyze why students have reading comprehension problems in . descriptive text in tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro.
There are many researchers who have done research on the analysis of reading difficulties. First, this research focused on the analysis of word reading difficulties using the reading text while this research analyzes the reading difficulties using Islamic narration.
REVIEW OF THE RELATED THEORIES
Definition of Reading Comprehension
- The Needs of Reading
- The Models of Reading
Descriptive text can also paint a picture of the feeling that the person, place or thing evokes in the writer. During or immediately after data collection, the researcher must make sense of the information provided by individuals in the study. The important part of research study is the analysis of data, because the result becomes a conclusion of all the research.
You can see the charm of the beach especially in the evening when the sentence stands out. The answer to the first question above was "B Located just about 3 km from the center of Makassar (Karebosi Park)". Based on the above answers, the researcher can conclude that most of the respondents understood the question.
Six of the eighteen respondents answered this question correctly and twelve of the respondents incorrectly. Sixteen of the respondents could answer this question correctly and two of the respondents could not answer it. The researcher therefore assumed that the students had no problem finding the main idea of the text, because only two students were mistaken about the main idea of the text.
And the other students say that "NO" is the reason why the students can't understand the descriptive text properly and correctly because the text was too long, have a low vocabulary, don't understand the material and they didn't know the meaning of the text. Based on the above data interview, it can be concluded that most of the students have low reading comprehension because the students are lazy to read the text, don't know what the text means, don't have much vocabulary and don't understand the material. In addition, from the result of the analysis of research data in previous elaboration, the writer found that the reading comprehension of the students was still low and needed to be improved.
In the description of the data analysis in the previous chapter, it can be concluded that the students' reading comprehension of the tenth graders at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro is still low and needs to be increased. Moreover, based on the result of the interview, it has been found that most of the students feel lazy to read because the students did not know the meaning of the text, did not have much vocabulary and did not understand the material. The charm of the beach is mainly seen in the evening, when the sun stands out.
Definition of Reading Comprehenion
- The Importance of Learning Comprehension
- Level of Comprehension
- Indicators of Reading Comprehension
- Measurement of Reading Comprehension
- Components of Reading Comprehension
- The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
- Text Feature of Description
- Kind of Descriptive Text
- Purposes of The Text
RESEARCH METHOD
- Types and Characteristic of Research
- Data Resource
- Data Collecting Technique
- Documentation
- Interview
- Research Approach
- Identifying a Research problem
- Reviewing the Literature
- Specifying a Purpose for Research
- Collecting Data
- Analysis and Interpreting the Data
- Reporting and Evaluating Research
- Data Analysis Technique
Qualitative research can use written documents or other artefacts to gain an understanding of the phenomenon being studied.34 In this research the author uses document technique to collect the data. Interviewing takes place when the researchers ask one or more participants general, open-ended questions and record their answers.36 This means that by conducting interviews the participants can best express their experiences, unbound by any perspectives of the research or previous research. Identifying a research problem consists of specifying an issue to study, developing a rationale for studying it, and suggesting the importance of the study to select audiences who will read the report.
In the era of free market and AFTA 2003, SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro is as an educational institution that the community has long trusted and the government feels called to be. In addition, SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro has established cooperation with government and private agencies such as UPTD BLK Metro, Bekasi CHEVEST Instructor Training Centers, AUTO 2000 Bandar Lampung, BLPT Yogyakarta, POLMAN ASTRA JAKARTA through industrial work practices in the success of the LINK and MATCH program. and with several overseas industries such as SELL ELECTRONICS, SDN.BHD. From this place you can also freely look at the sea and watch how the sunset slowly turns reddish on the horizon line.
Based on the results of documentation with tenth grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro, it can be concluded that out of five questions about scanning, understanding specific information, understanding vocabulary, identifying reference, making inferences and finding main idea, most of the respondents understand scanning has specific information, identifying reference and main idea question, while in understanding vocabulary and making inferences, the respondents still lack understanding about this material. Based on researcher question given above to 18 students, most of the students said that they do not like and are lazy to read the English text because the text is too long, cannot read correctly, and they also said that they do not know the meaning. of the text. Besides, based on the results of the interview, it was found that most of the students felt lazy to read because the students did not know what the text meant, did not have much vocabulary and did not understand the material.
RESULT OF THE RESEARCH AND DISCUSSION
Result of Research
- Description of The Research Location
- General Description of the ResearchData
SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro was founded in 1977, which at that time was still called STM, the director was Dr. STM used to not have its own building; until 2000, it still cooperated with Muhammadiyah 1 Metro High School, and then opened a new course, automotive in 1990/1991. SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro School based on Ministry of National Education Director of Vocational Secondary Education No.
With this base, SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro tries to improve itself by improving management both internally and externally. SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro strives to exist in the midst of global competition by improving the quality of human resources, facilities and infrastructure as well as cooperation with the business world and the industry both at home and abroad. The motto "EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE" SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro with Light Vehicle Engineering Skill Program, Engineering, Electrical Power Installation Engineering and Network Computer Engineering in 2012/2013 Academic Year has 949 students with 30 study groups.
With the potential and human resources of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro, trying to exist and trying to realize the vision of the school. To improve the quality of students, Muhammadiyah Metro Vocational School 2 also opened Special Program (Entrepreneurship Class) / Advanced Mechanical Engineering Tools and Mitsubishi Special Program classes and Honda classes. To create SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro becomes an exemplary institution in Academy and achievements in science and technology.
The researcher conducted a reading comprehension based on a documentary descriptive text on the tenth grader of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro.
Discussion
This is evident from the result of the documentation and the reading comprehension interview done by the students. Based on the result of reading comprehension in descriptive text in students of the tent class of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Metro was still low in understanding specific information scanning, grasping vocabulary, identifying reference, making inferences and finding main idea. Thus, the students need more practice and motivation to improve their reading comprehension in descriptive text.
The highest percentage of students' reading comprehension is found in the main idea question, and students also need to learn more how to easily understand a text so that students can answer all the questions correctly. Based on the result of the reading comprehension, it is found that the students have little understanding about scanning specific information, understanding vocabulary, identifying references, making inferences and finding the main idea. However, students need to learn more how they can easily understand a text and students can answer the question correctly.
The institution must pay a lot of attention to students who want to learn about reading. It is suggested that the researcher should enrich the knowledge and dig out different languages about reading comprehension.
