THE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE TENTH GRADE OF STATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 5 PEKANBARU

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Based on the researcher’s preliminary research, it was found that some of tenth
grade students at State Senior High School 5 Pekanbaru had difficulties in reading
comprehension. The difficulties were noticed in the percentage of their response in
answering questionnaires. The main focus of this research is to find out the
difficulties of the students in reading comprehension of narrative text at tenth
grade of state senior high school 5 Pekanbaru and the factors that make students
difficult in reading comprehension of narrative text. This descriptive
quantitativeresearch had one variable, Students’ Difficulties in Reading
Comprehension of Narrative Text. The subject of this research is the tenth grade
students at State Senior High School 5 Pekanbaru. The researcher selected all
classes from total 11 classes by using simple random sampling technique. There
are 40 students as sample out of 393 students. In collecting the data, the
researcherhas distributed questionnaires. After analyzing the data, the researcher
found that the students mostly have difficulties in reading comprehension in
identifying the factual information (21.97%), the second is to identify in making
inference (21.85%), the third is to find out the main idea (19.55%), the fourth is
to identify the generic structures (18.37%), and last is to identify the language
features (18.26%). The factor of these difficulties are; the first, students have lack
of fluency (14.92%), second, the students have problems in recalling information
(13.22%), and the third, the students have the level of the text (readability)
(13.09%). The researcherconcluded that there are some factors that caused students
difficult in answering reading comprehension questions in narrative text at State
Senior High School 5 Pekanbaru.

Keywords:Students Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Narrative Text.

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