Reading Ability of International Class Students of PGSD 2019 of Universitas Negeri Padang

An-Nashir, Abdullah Azzam (2021) Reading Ability of International Class Students of PGSD 2019 of Universitas Negeri Padang. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.

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Abstract

Reading ability is very crucial to the development of information, mastering knowledge, and attains language proficiency. This study is aimed to find out students reading ability and difficulty in reading English text. This research is a descriptive research. The data were collected from 22 international class students of PGSD 2019 of Universitas Negeri Padang. In collecting data, the students were asked to do a reading test consist of 50 questions for 55 minutes. The result shows that the students have a low reading ability in reading English texts because lack of vocabulary, processing skills, reading strategies, background knowledge, discourse knowledge and cognitive skills. Furthermore, the students have difficulties in several reading aspects. The most difficult aspect is answering implied detail (77% ), followed by determine specific information (69%), answering stated detail (64%), finding pronoun referents (64%), finding main idea (62%), answering transition questions (55%), answering vocabulary question (55%) and finding unstated detail (44% ).

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