An analysis on students’ ability in comprehending narrative text at grade xi SMA Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan

Noviandi, Noviandi (2014) An analysis on students’ ability in comprehending narrative text at grade xi SMA Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The aims of the research were to know students’ abilities in comprehending narrative text at grade XI SMA Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan, to know the difficulties of the students of grade XI SMA Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan in comprehending narrative text, and to know the efforts done by the English teacher in overcoming the difficulties. The research was conducted by descriptive analysis and qualitative approach. The source of the data in the research was students of grade XI SMA Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan. XI PA 2 class was primary sources of the data and English teacher was secondary sources of the data. Primary sources consisted of 32 students and secondary sources consisted of one teacher. There were 3 instruments in collecting data: test, interview, and observation. Data was processed and analysed with qualitative process. After doing the research to the students of grade XI SMA Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan, it could be concluded that the students’ ability in comprehending narrative text was high category (80.70). Even though, there was still the students’ difficulties in mastery simple past tense, vocabulary, answer/ found the ideas of narrative text, and identifying the generic structure of narrative text. The efforts done by the English teacher in overcoming the difficulties;first, the teacher often repeated the lesson (simple past pattern) then gave the more examples about simple past tense from the text. Secondly, the teacher asked to bring the dictionary to memorize the new words they found in the text. Then, the effort of the English Teacher in finding the idea and identify generic structure of narrative text; firstly, the English teacher gave the tittles that near with Tangkuban Perahu and A Bad Camping by CLT (Communicative Language Teaching), scanning and skimming. Secondly, the English teacher repeated to explain and then discussed again the material about the text, whether there were any other problems that were found by the students or not.

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