Kurniawan, Angga (2023) STUDENTS DIFFICULTIES IN READING COMPREHENSION AT THE FOURTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM IN UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH KOTABUMI ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023. Other thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kotabumi.

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Abstract

This study focuses on the difficulties students face in reading comprehension. The purpose of this study is to determine the difficulties in reading comprehension faced by fourth semester students of the English education study program at Muhammadiyah Kotabumi University for the academic year 2022/2023. The method used in this study is a descriptive quantitative method, with the entire population taken as a research sample totally 37 students. The reading comprehension test was used as an instrument for data collection methods. The test consists of 25 items which are divided based on difficulties in reading comprehension, which include difficulties in integrating ideas of text, difficulties at the level of sentences, difficulty at the single-word level, difficulties in making inferences and difficulties in inferring implicit information of text. The percentage of difficulty is used to analyze the data. The test results show that in difficulties in integrating ideas the percentage of difficulty is 43%, which is classified as the lowest percentage of difficulty. In the difficulties at the level of sentences, the percentage of difficulty is 66%. Furthermore, the difficulty at the single-word level is categorized as the highest percentage of difficulty with a total of 77%. In the difficulties in making inferences the percentage of difficulties amounted to 67%, which is only one percent different from difficulties at the level of sentences. Meanwhile, the difficulties in inferring implicit information gets a difficulty percentage of 56%. Based on these results it can be concluded that fourth semester students in the English education study program at Muhammadiyah Kotabumi University for the academic year 2022/2023, are still experiencing difficulties at the level of sentences, single-word level, making inferences and inferring implicit information of text. The single-word level is categorized as the most difficulties for students.

Keywords: Reading, Reading Comprehension, Students Difficulties.

Item Type:	Thesis (Other)
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan > S-1 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	Faris Faris
Date Deposited:	12 Mar 2025 06:59
Last Modified:	12 Mar 2025 06:59
URI:	http://repository.umko.ac.id/id/eprint/412

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