Rahayu, Fitri (2025) An Analysis Of Students’ Difficulties In Reading Comprehension Of The Grade 8th At Smp N 6 Siak Hulu. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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Abstract

Reading comprehension is the ability to process text, understand the intent of the text with what the reader knows to get information from the text. This research goals to find out the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension of the grade 8th at SMP N 6 Siak Hulu. This research was conducted with the descriptive qualitative research to describe the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension. The sample were 32 students at the grade 8th SMP N 6 Siak Hulu. The instrument this research is questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 20 statements and divided into 5 indicators. The result of questionnaire using the Likert scale formula. The result of this research showed the grade eighth students at SMPN 6 Siak Hulu have difficulties in reading comprehension, there are main idea, understanding vocabulary, detail information, making inference and locating reference. Indicator main idea with an index percentage is 65,62%, understanding vocabulary with an index percentage is 64,45%, detail information with an index percentage is 70,89%, making inference is 70,50% and locating reference is 63,08%. The result shows indicator of detail information and making inference were the most difficult aspect faced by students. The detail information and making inference get the highest percentage. The conclusion of this study is that students fail to understand detail information and make conclusion. These two aspects are most difficult aspects for students.

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