Open AccessStudents’ Comprehension and Difficulties on Reading Descriptive Text at SMA Swasta Pencawan Medan
Author(s) -
Herna Sianturi,
Christina Putri Siahaan,
Syarifah Isma Dinda,
Yenita Br Sembiring
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
linguistic, english education and art (leea) journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2597-3819
DOI - 10.31539/leea.v3i2.1045
Subject(s) - reading comprehension , sma* , reading (process) , mathematics education , psychology , descriptive research , descriptive statistics , comprehension , pedagogy , computer science , linguistics , mathematics , statistics , philosophy , algorithm , programming language
This research aims to find out the student's Reading Descriptive Text. The method used in this research is qualitative; the study was conducted at SMA Swasta Pencawan Medan with the samples were 30 students of XI MIA-2. The researcher used multiple-choice with ten questions, reading tests, and interviews. The data collected from the students' scores. The result showed that there is 0 student or 0 % who was categorized excellent, there were two students or 6,67% who were classified as very good, there were seven students or 23,3 % who categorized as good, there were seven students or 23,3% were categorized as fair, there were five students or 16,7 % who were classified unsatisfactory. There were nine students or 30 % who were categorized very poorly. So, from the result, the researcher can conclude that the students were still in the poor category.
Keywords: reading, comprehension; reading comprehension problem; descriptive