AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN READING RECOUNT TEXT AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 TAMBANG

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This research is entitled “An Analysis of Students’ Difficulties in Reading
Recount Text ofthe eighthgradestudent at State Junior High School 1 Tambang”.
The objective of the research is to identify the students’ difficulties in reading
recount text at the eight grade of State Junior High School 1 Tambang. In this
research, the type of research used was descriptive quantitative research. The
researcher used purposive sampling technique to take the sample, there were 20
students as sample from 124 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used
questionnaire. The questionnaire was used in order to find out the students’
difficulties in reading recount text at the eight grade of State Junior High School 1
Tambang. In analyzing the data, the researcher found that the total number of
frequency of all difficulties in reading recount text was 402. The highest rate of all
difficulties was caused by the students who cannot do self-correction in reading
recount text,which the total number of difficulties was 131 or 32.6% and the
lowest rate of the difficulties was caused by the students who have poor
relationship with the teacher in reading recount text,which the total number of
difficulties was 64 or 15.9%. and also, the researcher found that the level of
students’ difficulties in reading recount text was fifty percent (50%) in standard
category with 10 respondents. So, the researcher concluded that the students at
SMP N 1 Tambang still had difficulties in reading recount text caused by the
students who cannot do self-correction.

Key words: Descriptive Quantitative Research, Students’ Reading difficulties,
Recount text.

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