THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF READING MATERIALS IN STUDENTS’ WORKSHEET USED BY EIGHTH GRADERS OF MTS SA’ADATUL ABADIAH KUALA TUNGKAL

Anjani, Riri Feby THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF READING MATERIALS IN STUDENTS’ WORKSHEET USED BY EIGHTH GRADERS OF MTS SA’ADATUL ABADIAH KUALA TUNGKAL. JOURNAL THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF READING MATERIALS IN STUDENTS’ WORKSHEET USED BY EIGHTH GRADERS OF MTS SA’ADATUL ABADIAH KUALA TUNGKAL.

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THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF READING MATERIALS IN STUDENTS’ WORKSHEET USED BY EIGHTH GRADERS OF MTS SA’ADATUL ABADIAH KUALA TUNGKAL Riri Feby Anjani 2018 Ririnanjani97@gmail.com ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM LANGUAGE AND ART DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION JAMBI UNIVERSITY 2018 Anjani, Riri Feby. 2018. The Strengths and Weaknesses of Reading Materials in Students’ Worksheet Used by Eighth Graders of MTs Sa’adatul Abadiah Kuala Tungkal. Thesis. English Study Program. Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Jambi University in Academic Year, 2017/2018. The first advisor is Dra. Radiatan Mardiah, M.Hum and the second advisor is Susanah, S.Pd., M.Sc. ABSTRACT The aims of this study were to identify perceptions of eighth graders about worksheet: Bahasa Inggris and to identify the strength and weaknesses of Reading Materials in worksheet: Bahasa Inggris published by CV Kesowo used by eight graders at MTs Sa’adatul Abadiah Kuala Tungkal to learn English reading. The method used in this research was a descriptive qualitative. The questionnaire and textbook checklist were used as instruments in this study. The results of students’ perception were divided into four categories. The first is about reading materials, the highest answer is on recount text and descriptive text . The second is about text type, most of students answered based on the worksheet that each text comes with exercises in the worksheet. The third is about content and usage of worksheet, most of students admitted that materials and exercises in each text were easy to be understood and about most of students admitted that each text in worksheet was uninteresting because there was no picture. The last is about worksheet layout, most of students admitted that format of exercises in reading materials were more than two formats. The results of identifying reading materials in worksheet shows some strengths and weaknesses, they are; 1) Common vocabulary for eighth graders, 2) Many variations of format exercises, 3) Each text types in worksheet has more than one example of text, 4) In each chapter begin with standard competency and basic competence. Then, the weaknesses are; 1) some of reading materials are not relevant with the curriculum, 2) there is no learning objective in the worksheet, 3) most of the text does not give general information, 4) The worksheet does not provide glossary which contain hard vocabularies, 5) Almost of the text does not provide the picture, 6) All of the text does not give source of the text. Key words: Worksheet, Descriptive Analysis, Reading Material.

Type:	Article
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Depositing User:	RIRI FEBY ANJANI
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2018 06:20
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2018 06:20
URI:	https://repository.unja.ac.id/id/eprint/4645

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