STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 22

This research aimed to analyze students' difficulties in reading comprehension at SMPN 22 Jambi. This is a qualitative research. The technique of data collection used in this research is observation and interviews. The subjects in this study were students of class VIII G at SMPN 22 Jambi. The results of this study indicate that the difficulties faced by class VIII G students in reading comprehension are four difficulties. Firstly, students have difficulty in understanding complexity of grammar. Secondly, the students has difficulty in knowing certain vocabulary when understanding reading. Thirdly, students have difficulty in using reading strategies, and the last one the students have difficulty in concentrations.


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Difficulty in Knowing Certain Vocabulary Used in the Text.

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Difficulty in Understanding Unfamiliar Content or Topic of the Text.

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Difficulty in Using Reading Strategies.

Reading
Reading is a way for someone who reads a text to acquire information and knowledge from a text.The reader can communicate with a text by reading.According to Cline et al. (2006) Reading is interpreting and understanding written text content.The readers know new information, acquire new knowledge, and explore new ideas through reading.Students should be able to understand what they are reading and the more they learn, the better they will become at it.
Reading Comprehension is one of the crucial components in reading skill.According to Moore et al. (2016), Reading comprehension is a basic skill used for the reader to comprehend what they read, and this skill must be developed and advanced over the period.It means, this skill is critical not only to understand what comprehension is, but as well to find out how to be relevant various understanding strategies based on the kinds text being read.

Reading Comprehension Strategies
The students could improve their reading by make a lot of practice.To help students improve their reading comprehension, there is several reading comprehensions to helps students practice in reading comprehension.In this research, to collect data the researcher used document, observation and interview as the instrument.Nevertheless, after writer did research in the school, the writer did not get document complete to support this research.Therefore, the researchers used observation and interview to collect the data.

C. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
In the research, the researcher classified the findings into several points that consist of students' difficulties in reading comprehension.Obtaining the data, the researcher did an observation of students' learning activity in the classroom, and did interview with the students and teacher.
The subject of this research was limited to the eight grade students of SMPN 22 Kota Jambi.
The research findings were discovering students' difficulties in reading comprehension at SMPN 22 Kota Jambi.Data collection was carried out through interview with 10 students by using cluster sampling.The result of the research showed that students have several difficulties in reading comprehension.There are students' difficulties in understanding grammatical complexity of sentence, difficulty in knowing certain vocabulary used in the text, difficulty in using reading strategies, and difficulty in concentration.
Based on finding above, the researcher discussed the research finding covering the students' difficulties in reading comprehension.That has been studied in some things.In addition, the researcher would discuss and answer this research question in the previous section.The research's question is "what are the difficulties in reading comprehension that faced by students at the eighth grade students of SMPN 22 Kota Jambi?"Moreover, to answer this question, the findings from observation and interview with students at SMPN 22 Kota Jambi were used on this research.The researcher concluded that the difficulties in reading comprehension that faced by students at the eighth grade students of SMPN 22 Kota Jambi that the students have some difficulties, there are: difficulty in understanding grammatical complexity of sentence, difficulty in knowing certain vocabulary used in the text, difficulty in using reading strategies, and difficulty in concentration.

Difficulty in understanding grammatical complexity of sentence.
The students had difficulty in understanding grammatical complexity of sentence.The students still lack about grammar knowledge.They still confused when they find grammatical complexity of the sentence used in the reading text.Grammatical in the text is crucial part to master in English.Grammar knowledge it could help the student to know the reading text as easy because they would easy understanding reading comprehensions if they master in grammar.
Based on the observation, when the students tried to reading narrative text, some of them still confused with grammar used on the text.For example, the students still confused with the verb used in the sentence, because one of them did not know if narrative text used verb 2. Therefore, they could not found the meaning of the word in dictionary.Based on result in previous study by Susanti (2018) claimed that she also found some of the students still confused on grammatical text and the students struggled to distinguish between verb 2 and another.It means that the students should increase more their grammar knowledge to get easy understanding in reading comprehension.

Difficulty in knowing certain vocabulary used in the text.
The vocabulary is foundation to students understanding text in reading comprehension text.As much as students know vocabulary so it could make the students get the point of reading text.
The students need a lot to know vocabulary to improve their reading skill.But, if the students did not master in vocabulary, it made the students confused with the text because based on observation and interview, the students lack in vocabulary.They did not have much the vocabulary.Based on the interview, the students said that English subject is difficult, because they unfamiliar with the vocabulary.In addition, when teaching English, the teacher usually used and speak English, but they confused because they less in the vocabulary.
The English learner should master in vocabulary.According to Kennedy as cited in Kasvia (2017) stated, "An excessive vocabularies burden focuses the reader to rely on the dictionary or to bypass many important words.".It means that the students have to increase their vocabulary to having well in reading comprehension.Based on observation, the researcher found that the students did not notice the teacher when the teacher asked about the meaning of word in the class.In addition, based on interview with students, the researcher found almost of the students lack in vocabulary, and some of them always forget to bring dictionary when learning and teaching English in the class.Based on observation at the eighth grade students a lot of students did not like the English subject especially in reading comprehension it because they lack in vocabulary.The students were still unfamiliar with the vocabulary.As an English language student, they should have initiative to increase their vocabulary, such as they take note to new vocabulary they got.It support in previous study by Qurniawan (2020), he showed that the students difficulties in comprehending reading text were caused by lack of vocabulary mastery.They came across unfamiliar words and did not recognize the meaning of words, which caused them to become confused with the text.They had difficulties obtaining information and understanding the text.
Besides that, based on interview on 4th June, the researcher found that students did not know much vocabulary, so they should find the meaning of word used of the text by using dictionary, but any students did not bring dictionary.It made the students hard to know the difficulty in reading comprehension but one of them who did not find the meaning they tried to asked they teacher about that word.
3. Difficulty in using reading strategies.
The strategies that used by the students in reading comprehension is low.One of them still do not know with the strategies in reading comprehension like skimming and scanning strategies and some of the student did not master in using reading strategies.Harmer (2007) claimed that Scanning means that students do not must read every word and every line.On the contrary, this method will prevent them from scanning successfully.It facilitated the students easy to find the main idea in the text and understanding reading text quickly.Therefore, it was necessary to guide students use appropriate skills to obtain information from the text appropriately and quickly.Based on result of previous study by Hidayati (2018) showed that 89% of students is difficult to understanding the strategies of reading text.It means that many students still low to know the techniques of reading text.In this problem, using strategies in reading comprehension could make the students easy to gain also gather information from the text.If the students lack in using strategies in reading comprehension, they will need more time to understanding reading text as correctly.Using strategies in reading comprehension is important to the students.It could make the students easy to understanding the content of the text as quickly.
Moreover, the students would easy to get the information without read all of the text if the students know and used skimming strategies in reading comprehension.

Difficulty in concentration.
Based on research finding, the students lack on the concentration it caused they not really interesting with the lesson, and unpleasant place of study such as they classroom very hot, and they friends so noisy while learning in the class.According to Dumont (1967), In order to achieve the greatest success in anything, you have to be able to focus all your thoughts on the ideas you are working on.Those who can concentrate will use all constructive thoughts and exclude all destructive thoughts.This the greatest human could not do anything if they are not focus or if they lack in concentration.Meanwhile, some of students at class VIII G at SMPN