This purpose of this study was to know students' reading comprehension on descriptive text among the eighth graders at SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung in the academic year 2018/2019. Therefore, the researcher formulated a problem statement: How is the students' reading comprehension of descriptive text among the eighth graders at SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung in the academic year 2018/2019. The population of the study was eight grade SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung in the academic year 2018/2019.
Dari analisis berdasarkan hasil dokumentasi dan data wawancara, dapat disimpulkan bahwa jenis-jenis keterampilan membaca dalam teks deskriptif di antara delapan kelas SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung tahun ajaran 2018/2019, siswa sepenuhnya memahami teks dan mengajukan pertanyaan dan menjawab dengan benar, siswa memahami sebagian besar teks dan pertanyaan hanya diajukan satu kali, siswa menunjukkan sedikit pemahaman tentang teks dan pertanyaan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pemahaman membaca teks deskriptif siswa kelas VIII SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung tahun pelajaran 2018/2019. Oleh karena itu peneliti merumuskan rumusan masalah: Bagaimana pemahaman membaca teks deskriptif siswa kelas VIII. kelas di SMA Darul Ulum Sekampung tahun ajaran 2018/2019.
Dari analisis berdasarkan hasil data dokumentasi dan wawancara dapat disimpulkan bahwa jenis keterampilan membaca teks deskriptif kelas VIII SMA Darul Ulum Sekampung tahun pelajaran 2018/2019 adalah siswa yang memahami teks sepenuhnya. dan dengan mengajukan pertanyaan dan menjawab pertanyaan dengan benar, siswa memahami beberapa Sebagian besar dari teks dan pertanyaan yang diminta hanya ditanyakan sekali, siswa menunjukkan sedikit pemahaman tentang teks dan pertanyaan.
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Background of the Study
Moreover, there is something to motivate and encourage them to improve their reading skills. As we know, if students are interested in learning given by the teacher, they can easily understand the material. Based on the above problem, in order to motivate students to read and increase students' reading ability, the writer chose Descriptive Text to help students increase their reading skills in the text.
Since it is a descriptive text with the instructions of the students, the writer can motivate and encourage the students to read the English text. To give proof of the above problems, the writer conducted a preliminary survey for eight classes of SMP Darul Ulum. Based on the above result, it is evidence that most of the students have low score in reading skills.
This means that the reading skills of students in the eighth grades of SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung are still low because many students get scores less than 65.
Focus of Study
Research Question
Objective and Benefits of the Study
As the teacher will improve their experience to impart reading skill in descriptive text to the students. The teacher can solve the problem of teaching and learning process by paying attention to the student's ability to use descriptive text through the students' reading ability. As the students can understand and more fluent to read the text by using descriptive text before going to learning process.
Description of reading difficulties faced by an eight-year-old junior high school student.
Prior Research
- The Definition Of Descriptive Text a. Definition of Descriptive Text
Based on the above research results, the purpose of the writer is different from the previous research because the writer will only analyze the students' reading fluency skill in the descriptive text. Based on the above statement, the writer concludes that reading is the process of understanding written symbols. From the above statement, the author concludes that the reading model is the process of drawing and organizing text on our intelligence and.
3P.David Person, Reading Study Center, (Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), 1978, p.4-6. This process of constructing meaning and understanding what is written in the text. Top-down models focus on working from text with meaning upwards. The bottom-up model has a reader working from text to meaning (focusing on the word and sentence level). A skill is a combination of ability, knowledge and experience, which enables a person to do something well.4 It means that skill is the ability to understand the passage which requires the power of understanding the full meaning of the passage.
Based on the above data, the writer will be examined about students' reading ability, because a person's reading ability level is different. Descriptive text is also used in all forms of writing to give a vivid impression of a person, place, object or event. Based on the above definition, we can conclude that descriptive text is a type of text that used to describe a particular person, place or thing.
Fluency is the ability to read as well as we speak and make sense of the text without having to stop and decipher each word. The larger the reader's vocabulary (whether oral or printed), the easier it is to understand the text. Descriptive text is a type of text used to describe a particular person, place, or thing.
Descriptive text has a feature that we need to know, there are features in descriptive text, as follows. Based on the definition, we can conclude that the descriptive text is a text that tells what a person or thing is like.
Description of the Research Setting
- Short History about the Establishment of SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung is located on Sumber Gede Village,
- The Buildings of SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung
- The Condition of Teachers and Official Employees in SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung Sekampung
- The Quantity of SMP Darul Ulum Sekampung Students in the Academic Year of 2018/2019
- Location Sketch of SMP Darul Ulum in the Academic Year of 2018/2019
- Data Analysis
Tatok Suranto S.Pd Male Mathematics Teacher 21. Wiwik Khoiriyah S.Pd.I Female Islamic Teacher 22.. Zainul Mubtadi'in M.Pd Female Social Teacher. This means that the respondent's reading skills in terms of clarity are quite good and comprehensible, for the voice has had a fairly good pronunciation and intonation, for fluency is still not too fluent in reading, and for comprehension most of what is being read has been understood asked in the text. This means that the respondent's reading skills in terms of clarity can sometimes not be understood, for the voice is already good success, but the pronunciation is still very unclear and lack of intonation, for fluency is still not very fluent in reading and for comprehension respondents sometimes cannot understand about text and questions.
This means the reading skills of the respondent, regarding the Clarity is mostly incomprehensible, for. This means the reading skills of the respondent, regarding Clarity is still difficult to understand, for voice pronunciation, intonation, accuracy is still less good students can be very difficult to read, for fluency very long pauses and to understand respondents Can sometimes not the text and questions. This means the reading skills of the respondent, regarding Clarity is sometimes incomprehensible, because voice pronunciation is still very unclear and lack of intonation, for fluency still very long pauses and for understanding respondents can less Understand questions and text.
This means that the respondent's reading skills in terms of clarity are good enough and comprehensible, for voice he already has quite good pronunciation and intonation, for fluency it is good enough, but there are minor problems and for comprehension the respondents understand most of what the text requires. This means the respondents' reading skills, about Clarity sometimes cannot be understood because the voice already has good pronunciation and intonation, the fluency is good enough, but there are small problems and with comprehension the respondents understand most of what the text asks. This means the respondents' reading skills, o Clarity is sometimes not understandable, for voice pronunciation, intonation, accuracy still not good, for fluency still many long pauses and for comprehension respondents sometimes do not understand O text and questions.
Based on the data interview above, it can be concluded that most of the students have the same difficulties in reading skills, such as lack of motivation from students to read, students rarely practice reading, students do not know what the word means. , does not have much vocabulary and students are confused with sentence structure. So, when the students found it difficult to find an English expression, they ask their teacher, their friends, open dictionary, prediction, and sometimes they are too lazy to open dictionary or ask the teacher to know the meaning of the word, etc. . So the researcher assumed that students need more practice and motivation to improve their reading skills and understand reading text.
Discussion
In addition, from the result of the research data analysis in the previous elaboration, the researcher found that the students' ability in reading descriptive text was still low and needed to be improved. It can be seen from their result in reading the descriptive text that the students have done. Based on the analysis that was done by the researchers to the 10 respondents, it turns out that there are 4 Measurements of reading skills, namely Clarity, Voice, Impact and Comprehension.
In order to solve the problems the students have, the researcher was able to find that the students should learn more methods and strategies to make it easier to read and understand the text. In addition, students can enrich their vocabulary as it can help them to read the text. So the students did not need an open dictionary to find a difficult word in the sentences.
Suggestion
The institution should pay close attention to the students who want to study about literacy. Paying attention to this research is not perfect enough, the researcher hopes that there will be other researchers who will investigate in the theme of literacy in the future. It is suggested that the researcher should enrich knowledge and unearth different linguistic inputs related to reading skills.
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Researcher Introduced himself in front of the class
Researcher explained the procedure of answering the test
Researcher gave the text about descriptive to the students
Students answered the interview questionnaire sheet
