AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN FINDING MAIN IDEA OF READING TEXT

Rima Mauli AD, Cucu Sutarsyah, Ujang Suparman

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis masalah siswa dalam menemukan main idea dan untuk mengetahui persepsi siswa terhadap tes membaca dalam menemukan main idea. Subjek penelitian ini adalah kelas VIII A MTsN 1 Kotabumi. Peneliti menggunakan tiga instrumen pengambilan data: tes membaca, wawancara dan kuesioner. Hasil dari tes membaca menunjukan bahwa hanya ada 5 siswa yang mendapat nilai 61-70 dan 8 siswa yang mendapat nilai 31-40. Berdasarkan hasil yang didapat dari wawancara terdapat 6 masalah yang siswa temukan dalam menemukan main idea: kurangnya minat siswa, kurangnya pengetahuan kosa kata, kalimat yang panjang, miskin strategi membaca, kebingungan tata bahasa, dan tidak tahu bagian paragraf. Hasil dari kuesioner dapat disimpulkan bahwa siswa kelas VIII A masih kesulitan dalam menemukan main idea karena mereka tidak mengetahui arti dari main idea dan banyak kata-kata sulit yang membuat mereka bingung untuk menemukan main idea pada teks bacaan.

This research was intended to analyze the students’ problems in finding main idea and to trace the students’ perception toward a reading test in finding main idea. The participants were class VIII A MTsN 1 Kotabumi. The researcher used three data collecting techniques: reading test, interview, and questionnaire. The result of reading test showed that there were only 5 students who got score 61-70 and 8 students who got score 31-40. Based on the result of interview there were six students’ problems faced in finding the main idea: lack of students interest, lack of vocabulary knowledge, length of the sentence, poor reading strategy, grammatical confusion, and ignorance of paragraph component. The result of questionnaire can be concluded that the students class VIII A still get difficulties in finding main idea because they do not know what main idea is and many difficult words make them confused to find main idea of reading text.

Keywords: main idea, problems, reading

   

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