STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN READING RECOUNT TEXT 4.1

CHAPTER IV

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

In this chapter, it will be explained about result of the research. The result describes about students’ difficulties in reading recount text. It also uses tables of the result to make it clearer. Then, the results will be discussed to know some factors which related to the result.

4.1 Results

The research results were taken from the test of reading recount text which consists of 50 items. There were 5 types of the test; finding main and specific ideas, comprehending whole text, making conclusion, vocabulary and grammar tests. The test was held on 6 and 7 June 2012. There were 65 students who followed the test. The result of the test described the difficulties of the second semester Student at Broadcasting and TKJ Classes of SMK N 3 Kota Bengkulu in reading recount text. It will be explained as the following :

4.1.1    Reading Difficulties Of Broadcasting Class

            Broadcasting class has 32 students. To understand tha data easier, writer uses X and Y letters. They mean:

X         : Number of students who answer correctly.

Y         : Number of students who answer incorrectly.

4.1.1.a Finding main and specific ideas test

Table 1. Correct and Incorrect answers of Finding main and specific ideas test

Number of items	Frequency
	X	Percentage %	Y	Percentage %
1	32	100%	0	0%
2	30	94%	2	6%
3	19	59%	13	41%
4	19	59%	13	41%
5	15	47%	17	53%
6	8	25%	24	75.%
7	18	56%	14	44%
8	9	28%	23	72%
9	22	69%	10	31%
10	23	72%	9	28%
Average	19		13

From the table above, it described that only 19 of Broadcasting students answered correctly. It indicated that Broadcasting students on Finding main and specific ideas test of reading recount text had poor ability to comprehend recount text, especially in finding general and specific ideas from the text. In other words, students still had some difficulties in reading recount text. It was also proved by the incorrect answer average score, 13. Their scores were also fail to qualify minimal score standard (KKM) of English subject in SMK N 3 Kota Bengkulu, which was 70. For the items number 1 and 2, the average correct answer scores were 100% and 94%. It means the class had good ability to answer those questions correctly and did not have some significant difficulties. It was also proved by their incorrect average score which only 0% for number 1 and 6%. For number 3 to 9, it seems that student had some difficulties to find specific ideas of the text. Those correct average scores were under 70%. In other words, Broadcasting students had poor ability to answer those items and still had some difficulties in finding specific ideas. For the last number, there were 23 (72%) students answer correctly. It was concluded that students had less difficulties in reading recount text. Obviously, Broadcasting class still had difficulties to find the main and specific ideas. These were caused by their limited ability in  understanding the recount text.

4.1.1.b             Comprehending whole text test

Table 2. Correct and Incorrect answers of Comprehending whole text test

Number of Items	Frequency
	X	Percentage %	Y	Percentage %
1	32	100%	0	0%
2	32	100%	0	0%
3	31	97%	1	3%
4	25	78%	7	22%
5	31	97%	1	3%
6	23	72%	9	28%
7	19	59%	13	41%
8	19	59%	13	41%
9	20	63%	12	37%
10	25	78%	7	22%
Average	26		6

Comprehending whole text test aims to know students’ difficulty of understanding in the whole text. In those questions, they should determine some choices and choose the correct answer from those questions. The result table described that Broadcasting students had high average correct answer score. 26 of the students answered correctly. It means  the class was success in understanding the whole text and did not have many difficulties in answering the Comprehending whole text questions. It proveed that their abilities to comprehend the recount text were high. However, for number 7 to 9, it seems that students still had some difficulties in comprehending the text. It was proved by the correct average scores were 59%, 59%, and 63%. It was caused by the most of student did not answer and the answer of the question was implicit or not written down in text. For other numbers, their correct average scores were more than  70%. It proved that students had enough of background knowledge about the text.