1. Background
Language is an essential medium in human’s life.
People will get problems and will get difficulty in communication without
having a language. As a matter of fact, in globalization era, English is an
important language because almost all the sources of knowledge such as
articles, journals, newspapers, books, and magazines are written and published
in English. However, in order to have a deep understanding and well mastered in
English as a foreign language, someone has to learn four language skills. Those
are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among the four language skills,
reading is one of the skills which plays an important role in all aspects of
life especially in advanced era where information communication, and technology
instructions are also written in English.
Reading is one of the language skills that the teachers
of english should teach at school. Mclaughlin and
allen (2002:1) statesthat
reading can make the student visualize, monitor, and things about words. Since reading plays an important part to develop the
students’ achievement and knowledge, the teaching and learning process in high
school should be focused on reading activities.
Unfortunately, many
students still have problems and weaknesses in their reading skill and aspects
that support it. In addition, many
students feel that reading is a burden. They find it difficult to read, and
they do not have enough time to read. Based on
observation, the tenth grade students at SMA Purwodadi had problems in reading
comprehension, it was shown with their mean score of English was 68.57. It was
taken from 35 students, there were 14 students who passed the Minimum Mastery
Criteria (MMC) of reading 72. It was classified that the students’ reading
comprehension was still in low level. Briefly, it can be stated that many students did not master the
reading text, and they have no interest in
learning English especially learning how to read well. As the result, their
achievement in reading comprehension is still below the
reading MMC 72.
Moreover, based on the
information of the observation, the writer found out that the tenth grade
students had many problems, the problems that appeared were: (1) students
cannot develop their knowledge on the reading text genre. It means that the
students could not memorize and know well about the generic structure of the
text, (2) the students mostly had problems in translating the words, phrases
and sentences, (3) the students were difficult to draw conclusion from implied
detailed information, especially each main idea of each paragraph, and (4) the
students were not aware to locate the specific information, in terms of line,
sentences, and paragraph in a text.Briefly, it can be stated that many students have no interest in learning English especially
learning how to read well. As the result, their achievement in reading
comprehension is still below standard.
Referring to the
problems above, the writer would liketo research narrative text. By knowing the
description of people, place, or thing will make the students enrich their
reading comprehension. Therefore, the writer chooses the narrative text in this
research. The development of students’ description can be done by introducing
new ideas into their world, and when students read description that contain picture,
it can help them understand and accept their own feelings.
Based on the
illustration above, this study describes “The Analysis of Miscues Made by The tenth
Grade Students in Reading Descriptive
text at SMA NegeriPurwodadi in the academic year of 2015/2016. The writer is
interested in choosing this topic because the writer wants to find out what are
the types of miscues in reading stories and there is no research on the topic
at this school before.
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