The ability of the students in reading descriptive text of the VIII grade SMP Negeri 7 Siabu

Lubis, Ummi Kalsum (2019) The ability of the students in reading descriptive text of the VIII grade SMP Negeri 7 Siabu. UNSPECIFIED thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The aims of the research are to find out how the ability, the difficulties and the efforts of VIII grade students and English teacher of SMP Negeri 7 Siabu in reading descriptive text. The research was conducted by descriptive analysis and quantitative approach. The population of the research is the students of VIII grade. While, the sample of the research is from the population itself, they are 25 students. Then,the instruments are test and interview. Data was processed and analysed with descriptive analysis and quantitative process. Descriptive analysis was used to analyzed the interview from the students and the English teacher and quantitative process was used to analyze students’ means score after doing the test, it was multiple choices test. After doing the research to students, it could be concluded that the ability of the VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 7 Siabu in reading descriptive text based on the test was categorized into enough category. It was 50.24 mean score. After interviewing the students, the researcher found out that the students’ main problem in reading descriptive text was in vocabulary mastery, the grammar point became essential because low of understanding of present tense sentences and verb form, lack of text understanding and the last is less understanding of generic structure of text especially about descriptive text. While, the efforts were done by the English teacher were always keeping the students to learn, review, and explain detailed about the difficulties that the students got, and the last is always ask students to pratice studying about texts especially descriptive text.

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