AN ANALYSIS ON THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN COMPREHENDING NARRATIVE TEXT AT SMP N 25 PADANG

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Abstract

This research was attempted to describe the second year students difficulties in comprehending narrative text at SMPN 25 Padang. The design of this research was descriptive. The members of population were 178. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique in taking the sample. The researcher got one class as the sample and it consists of 29 students. It means it was 16% of the population. In collecting the data, the researcher used reading test. Before the researcher gave real test, it was tried out. From the result, the researcher found that the degree of  coefficient correlation was 0.77 and the reliability coefficient for total test was 0.87 It means that the reliability of the test was very high. After analyzing the data, this research found that most of the second year students of SMPN 25 Padang had difficulties in comprehending narrative text. It was indicated by the number of the students who had score below mean plus 0.5 standard deviation specifically 62.07% students had difficulties in comprehending orientation, 82.76% students had difficulties in comprehending complication, and 65.52% students had difficulties in comprehending resolution. Based on the findings of this research, it can be concluded that the students had difficulties in comprehending narrative text. Based on the conclusions above, the teacher is espected to improve students skills in comprehending narrative text by giving more exercises to the students. For the students, they are suggested to do more exercises about reading narrative text and all aspects about narrative text and further researcher is suggested to do relevant research from different point of view and another kind of text.

Key words: Reading , Comprehending, Narrative Text