AN ANALYSIS ON THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY IN INTERPRETING A CONNOTATIVE MEANING IN READING A PARAGRAPH

Alfino, Mukhti and Khairul, Khairul and Lely, Refnita (2015) AN ANALYSIS ON THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY IN INTERPRETING A CONNOTATIVE MEANING IN READING A PARAGRAPH. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to find the difficulties of the third year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University in interpreting connotative meaning in reading paragraph. The design of this research was descriptive. The population of this research was the third year students at the English Department of Bung Hatta University. The number of population membersof this research was 113 students. Because the population was quite large, the researcher chose the sample by using cluster random sampling, it was used because they had divided into three classes, (class A, B, and C), and finally the researcher got class A as the sample, it was consisted of 30 students. The instrument used to get the data was a reading test and its reliability index was .70, it means the test was having high reliability. The result of data analysis revealed that the students have difficulties in interpreting words, phrases and sentences having connotative meaning in positive and negative impressions. It was proved by the fact that there were 14 (36.84%) students had no difficulties in interpreting words, phrases and sentences having connotative meaning and 24 out of 38 students (63.16%) had difficulties in interpreting words, phrases and sentences having connotative meaning. Meanwhile, for positive connotation, there were 13 students (34.21%) had no difficulties and 25 students (65.79%) had difficulties. Afterwards, it was also found that there were 11 students (28.95%) had no difficulties and 27 students (71.05%) had difficulties in interpreting words, phrases and sentences having connotative meaning for negative connotation. Key words: Reading, Paragraph, Difficulty, Interpreting Meaning, Connotative meaning,

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