Analysis of the students' difficulties on literal reading comprehension in descriptive text at eight grade of SMP Muhammadiyah Boarding School Tarakan
Analysis of the students’ difficulties on literal reading comprehension in descriptive text at SMP Muhammadiyah Boarding School Tarkan. This research aims to analyze the difficulties of students' literal reading comprehension in descriptive text in eighth grade of SMP Muhammadiyah Boarding School Tarakan. The research design of this research was descriptive qualitative. The subject of this research was class VIII A SMP Muhammadiyah Boarding School Tarakan in the academic year 2021/2022. The researcher used purposive sampling, there were 32 students as the sample in this research. Researcher collected data using test and interview. The results showed that students' literal reading comprehension of descriptive text were in the good category. This can be seen from the student scores where 88% of students can achieve the KKM (Minimum Completeness Criteria). While 12% of students have not been able to reach the KKM. The result of the students' average score was 85.5. The percentages for each indicator are 31% of the eighth grade students are in the very good category, 38% of the eight grade students were in the good category, 19% of the eight grade students were in the fair category and 12% of the eight grade students were in the poor category. The researchers also found that there were several difficulties faced by students in the learning process, one of the most common difficulties faced by students was the lack of mastered vocabulary, which made it difficult for students to understand the contents of the reading text.