The Analysis of Miscues in Reading DescriftiveText Made by the Tenth Grade Students of SMA Negeri Purwodadi

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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