Students’ Attitudes toward Their Reading Comprehension at the Ninth Grade Students of SMP Labschool Kebayoran in the 2020/2021 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta

astarika retno setiati; dr. roslaini, m.hum.;

SINTA DEWI PRIMANTI. NIM: 1601055018. Students’ Attitudes toward
Their Reading Comprehension at the Ninth Grade Students of SMP Labschool
Kebayoran in the 2020/2021 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta: The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2020.

During learning process, students are required to master reading skill. To cope with the reading skill, students need other aspects to support their efforts to reach a success in reading. Attitude as one of the important aspects in achieving reading comprehension supports students' intention to read and it seems very essential to own by students. This research is carried out to investigate the students’ attitudes their reading comprehension. Qualitative study was applied as the research method with questionnaires and interviews as the instruments in collecting the data. The research involved sixty-two students from secondary school in Indonesia who have learned reading comprehension. Out of the total number of respondents, eight students were involved in a semi-structured interview. The
result of the data analysis revealed that students showed possitive attitude in
attitude components on cognitive and affective aspects. Meanwhile in reading comprehension components, the students indicated positive attitudes on vocabulary and inference aspects. In brief, positive attitude were dominant in students’ attitudes toward reading comprehension.The objective of the research was to find the empirical evidence of the most typical errors, and the sources of errors which were made by the tenth grade students of SMK Bina Karya Utama Jakarta. The population of the research was the tenth grade students of SMK Bina Karya Utama Jakarta. It consisted of 72 students, but when the writer took the data, there were only 30 students that present in the class. The writer used a purposive cluster sampling technique to get thesamples. The method employed in this research was a descriptive analysis. The writer administered a guided task on descriptive writing. The students wrote 3 paragraphs based on the outline given by the writer. To distinguish errors and mistakes, the writer returned the writings that have been marked to the students to be revised. The writer asked the students do the same test on different day. The research showed that the most typical errors done by the students were in capitalization with 131 or 19.06%, add word with 123 or 17.20%, word choice with 113 or 16.44%, omit a word with 73 or 10.62%, verb tense with 56 or 8.15%, word order with 36 or 5.24%, article with 33 or 4.80%, word form with 25 or3.63%, and meaning not clear with 25 or 3.63%. The smallest typical errors done by the students were in run on sentence with 7 or 1.01%, singular-plural with 12 or 1.74%, incomplete sentence with 13 or 1.89 %, punctuation with 16 or 2.32%, and spelling with 24 or 3.49%.