The students’ difficulties in reading comprehension at grade XI MAS Baharuddin

Matondang, Nurlija (2020) The students’ difficulties in reading comprehension at grade XI MAS Baharuddin. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The problems of this research was the student feel difficult in reading comprehension. The student feel difficult to find the main idea of the text, the students feel difficult in understanding vocabulary, the student feel difficult in understanding detail the information and the student feel difficult to making inference. This research has three formulation of the problems, namely, how are the situations or conditions in MAS Baharuddin, what are the students‘ difficulties in reading comprehension at grade XI MAS Baharuddin, and what will be the teachers‘ effort to solve the students‘ difficulties in reading comprehension at grade XI MAS Baharuddin. The objective of this research is to know the situation or conditions in MAS Baharuddin, to identify the students‘ difficulties in reading comprehension at eleventh grade of MAS Baharuddin and to know the teachers‘ effort to solve the students‘ difficulties in reading comprehension at eleventh grade of MAS Baharuddin. This research was done in MAS Baharuddin. The source of the data was the eleventh (Agama) grade students of MAS Baharuddin with the total 22 students. The kind of this research is qualitative research by using descriptive method. The instruments of collecting data were observation, interview and test. Based on the result of the research, researcher found that there are many facilities, extraculicular and there are 118 students in MAS Baharuddin. Then, the students‘ difficulties in reading comprehension were in determining main idea, understanding vocabulary, detail the information and making inference. Also, the students got 95 difficulties in reading comprehension. They are; 29 (30.52%) difficulties in determining main idea, there was 17 (17.90%) difficulties in understanding vocabulary, there was 24 (25.27%) difficulties in detail information, and there was 25 (26.31%) difficulties in making inference. The teacher‘ effort to solve the students‘ difficulties in reading comprehension are; explaining more detail about structure of the text, supporting paragraph, how to find main idea, how to make conclusion, giving the new vocabulary to the students before start the lesson and not allowing the students to speak Arabic language when study English.

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