AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN PREVIEWING NARRATIVE TEXT AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OFBUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

Sisriwahyuni, Sisriwahyuni and Fatimah, Tanjung and Khairul, Harha (2015) AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN PREVIEWING NARRATIVE TEXT AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OFBUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was attempted to describe the third year students’ problems in previewing narrative text at English Department of Bung Hatta University. The design of this research was descriptive. The members of population of this research were 87. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique in taking the sample since the students were distributed into three classes and all members of population were homogeneous. The researcher got one class as the sample and it consisted of 28 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used reading test. Before the researcher gave real test, it was tried out. From the result of the try out, the researcher found the reability index of the test was 0.93 (see Appendix 4). It means the test was reliable. After analyzing the data, it was found that most of the third year students of English Department had problems in previewing narrative text.They had problem in previewing by title, previewing by picture and by heading. It was indicated by the fact, 85.71% students had problems in previewing narrative text (see appendix 18), 67.85% students had problems in previewing by title (see Appendix 12), 46.42%students had problems in previewing by picture (see appendix 14), and 42.85% students had problem in previewing by heading (see appendix 16) . Based on the findings of this research, it can be concluded that the third year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University had problems in previewing narrative text. By having known the students’ problems in previewing narrative text, the lecturers are suggested to improve students’skills in previewing narrative text by giving more exercises to the students on previewing by title, by picture and by heading. Besides, she suggests the students to do more exercises on previewing by title, by picture and by heading.

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