Institusion
Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember
Author
Kurniawan, Dian Setya
Subject
371 Educational Institutions, Schools and Their Activities
Datestamp
2022-11-18 02:20:56
Abstract :
Narrative text is a kind of text which can give a lesson to the readers. Moreover, there were
previous studies done by Herlina and Melati (2020) is studied showed that An Analysis of
Students? were difficulties in Finding the Character Values of Narrative Text. There was also a
study done by Marzona and Ikhsan (2019) the results of study showed that study teachers are
expected to be able to provide better teaching techniques and students can do more exercises to
improve students' reading comprehension abilities. There will be difference between the previous
studies, here the researcher will discuss the ability and the difficulties students find in reading
narrative text. Another previous research conducted by Khoirunnisa, Widodo in (2019). The
research is about Students? Difficulties in Comprehending Narrative Text at SMP Manalagi
Batu. The researcher used quantitative research approach and chose case study to use. The
population was the 125 students in ninth grade at SMP Manalagi Batu. The samples were 29
students of the ninth grade. The result shows that these students from the best class among the
four ninth grade classes had the difficulties in reading comprehension. Referring to the data
gained from questionnaire, it can be concluded that ninth grade students get difficulties in
comprehending narrative texts. The most difficult things students faced in reading narrative text
are comprehending the structure, point of view, and majority of words.
The problem of this research is formulated as what are factors affect the difficulties of students in
comprehending Narrative text of the students in the tenth grade of SMK AL-FURQON
Bondowoso.
In this research, the researcher used descriptive qualitative. Qualitative research was a kind of
educational research in which the researcher focused on students' problems in learning English
the views of participants; asked general questions and the participants experience; collected data
consisted words from the participants; described and analyzed that words and conducts it is
subjective (Creswell, 2013, p.236). Researcher used qualitative research to obtain data to be
collected by observing and also used interviews as a tool to obtain information about what will
be delivered. Researchers used interview to obtain the data that used, after obtaining data through
interviews the researchers then transmit the data obtained from interviews conducted during the
research process conducted with research participants involved in this research