Proceedings of the First National Seminar Universitas Sari Mulia, NS-UNISM 2019, 23rd November 2019, Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia

Research Article

The Students’ Problems in Reading Comprehension at Junior High School in Indonesia

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.23-11-2019.2298393,
        author={Buhari  Muslim},
        title={The Students’ Problems in Reading Comprehension at Junior High School in Indonesia},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the First National Seminar Universitas Sari Mulia, NS-UNISM 2019,  23rd November 2019, Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={NS-UNISM},
        year={2020},
        month={7},
        keywords={problem reading comprehension},
        doi={10.4108/eai.23-11-2019.2298393}
    }
    
  • Buhari Muslim
    Year: 2020
    The Students’ Problems in Reading Comprehension at Junior High School in Indonesia
    NS-UNISM
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.23-11-2019.2298393
Buhari Muslim1,*
  • 1: UniversitasSariMulia, Banjarmasin, South Borneo, Indonesia
*Contact email: buhari.muslim91@gmail.com

Abstract

The objective of this research is to describe the problems in reading comprehension that faced by the students at Junior High School in Indonesia. In this study, the writer used descriptive research. Moreover, the writer took the Junior High School students in urban area as the research subject. The result of the research showed that the students’ problems in reading comprehension that faced by students. The analysis showed that the students’ problems are in prior knowledge, interest, decoding, the type of text being used, vocabulary, the quality of literacy instruction, independent practice, answering question in reading, understanding the question in reading, and interested in the text, and being an active reader.