AN ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS OF STUDENT’S DIFFICULTIES IN READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHTH GRADE AT SMP N 30 SEMARANG

Ningrum, Yustika Ratri 2024 : “AN ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS OF
STUDENT’S DIFFICULTIES IN READING COMPREHENSION AT
VIII (G) GRADE AT SMP N 30 SEMARANG.”
Keywords:Readingdifficulty,Readingcomprehension,andText.
Reading takes a very important role in contributing student’s
backgroundknowledge to speak and to write. However, many students still
have
difficulties
inunderstandingthewords,comprehendingthereadingtext,makinginference,deter
mining main idea, and locating reference.The objective of this research is
tofindoutstudents’difficultiesincomprehendingreadingtextandwhatstrategiesus
edto overcomethedifficulties.
This research was a qualitative research and useddescriptive method
toexpose the data which was collected byquestionnaire and analyzed using
Likertscale.The sample was the third year students of SMPN 30 Semarang.
The questionnaire consisted of 15 statements related to theiropinion on
difficulties
in
comprehending
reading
text.
Other
20
statements
relatedtotheirstrategiesinovercomingthedifficultiesnamelymetacognitiveandco
gnitive.
The data revealed that 75% of the students had strong and 5.6%
studentshad very strong comprehension. This meant that the students had good
orverygoodreadingcomprehensionabilitybutsomestudentsstillgotdifficulties.Be
sides, there were 2.8% of the students had weak comprehension and 16.6%had
average level of comprehension or had a bit of difficulties. In using the
twostrategies, the students had Average criterion (55.5%). They mostly tended
to usemetacognitivestrategies(78%)in reading comprehension.