Students’ paragraph element understanding at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Timur

Batubara, Rondani (2015) Students’ paragraph element understanding at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Timur. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about Students’ Paragraph Element Understanding at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Timur. The aims of this research is to describe the ability of students in understanding paragraph elements at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Timur, and to identify students’ difficulties in understanding paragraph elements at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Timur. This research was conducted by qualitative by using descriptive method. The sources of data for this research are divided into two kinds. They are primary source and secondary source. The primary source for this research is all students of class XI IPA SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Timur. Total of them are 29 students. The secondary source is the English teacher of grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Timur. Next, this research used observation, interview, and test. The researcher analyzed the data by editing the data, tabulation of tha data, description of the data and the last taking conclusion. After doing the research, the researcher found some facts in the field. The students’ problem in understand paragraph elements were lack in vocabulary, less motivation, reinforcement, and hardness in studying English, the English teacher’s teaching in paragraph element. Then, the efforts done by English teacher to solve the students difficulties to understand paragraph element, the English teacher often repeat or know style the read especially in mean of word, sentence, and the difficulties to identify paragraph element like topic sentence, supporting sentence, and concluding sentence. Then the English teacher gave the students to find out some difficult words and teacher ordered to translate it into Indonesian language every meeting. It can be seen in the result of the test given (appendix IV). Based on above explanation, the researcher concluded that the ability of grade XI Students in SMA Negeri 1 Angkola Timur get 57 % (enough category).

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