Students’ problems in comprehending text at grade x SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan

Simamora, Maslan Marito (2013) Students’ problems in comprehending text at grade x SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The aims of research were to know the students’ ability in comprehending text at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan, to know the problems that faced by students in comprehending text at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan, to know the efforts done by English teacher to overcome the students’ problems in comprehending text at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan. And to know the efforts done by students to overcome the students’ problems in comprehending text at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan. This research was done in SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan. The sources of data were the first year’s students, the English teacher and headmaster of SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan. The kind of this research is qualitative research by using descriptive method. The instruments of collecting data were observation, interview and test. After the research was done it can be known that the students’ comprehending text at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padangsidimpuan can be categorized into enough categories. The students’ problems in comprehending text were the student’s lack of the knowledge to comprehend the generic structure of descriptive text and narrative text. The students got confuse in tense that used in descriptive and narrative text, and had poor vocabularies to comprehend the meaning in descriptive and narrative text. The efforts done by English teacher to overcome the students’ problems were the English teacher often repeat the lesson until the students comprehend about the lesson. English teacher explaining clearly about generic structure, social function, the tense that used in text and what is the different between generic structure of descriptive and narrative text and English teacher asked the students to know 15 vocabularies by heart and the meaning, before English teacher gave the lesson, the teacher asked the students randomly. The efforts done by students to overcome the students’ problems were study hard, repeat the lesson, deepen knowledge about tenses and learn by heart 50 vocabularies every week.

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