Students’ Problems in Reading Narrative Text

Abstract

Reading is important on every level of education; however, it is not all students success at reading. The troubles that they face are critical to discover. Hence, this investigation under this research aims to find the understudies' issues in story text reading. The researchers employed a qualitative approach with descriptive method. The setting was at SMPN 2 Kandangan. A number of 59 eighth grade students were involved in this study. The data were collected by using a questionnaire, interview and a reading comprehension test. It is revealed that almost all participants face problems in reading narrative text. The problems are determining main ideas, finding detailed information, making inference, identifying reference, and understanding meaning of words. The researchers suggested the English teacher to utilize cooperative learning strateg and teach technique to find vocabulary meaning by using clues.