Students’ Problems in Reading Narrative Text

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210222.013How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Reading, Reading Comprehension, Student’s Problems in Reading

Abstract

Reading is important on every level of education; however, it is not all students success at reading. The troubles that they face are critical to discover. Hence, this investigation under this research aims to find the understudies’ issues in story text reading. The researchers employed a qualitative approach with descriptive method. The setting was at SMPN 2 Kandangan. A number of 59 eighth grade students were involved in this study. The data were collected by using a questionnaire, interview and a reading comprehension test. It is revealed that almost all participants face problems in reading narrative text. The problems are determining main ideas, finding detailed information, making inference, identifying reference, and understanding meaning of words. The researchers suggested the English teacher to utilize cooperative learning strateg and teach technique to find vocabulary meaning by using clues.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Muhammad Firdi Yuvirawan
AU  - Rina Listia
AU  - Rizky Amelia
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/02/24
TI  - Students’ Problems in Reading Narrative Text
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences Education (ICSSE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 95
EP  - 98
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210222.013
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210222.013
ID  - Yuvirawan2021
ER  -