5 various pronouns in a narrative text he is likely to experience problems to grasp
the message of the text. The problems related to pronoun comprehension among the eighth grade
students led the writer to conduct this study. Throughout this study, the writer is eager to discover the pronouns that cause most problems as well as to discover the
possible causes that mostly affect the problems to occur.
B. Problem Formulation
The problems of the study are formulated as follow: a.
What pronoun types can cause comprehension problems to the eighth grade students of junior high school?
b. What pronoun functions can cause comprehension problems to the
eighth grade students of junior high school? c.
What are the possible causes of the problems experienced by the eighth grade students of junior high school in comprehending
pronouns in narrative texts?
C. Problem Limitation
The focus of this study is the problems in comprehending pronouns in narrative texts experienced by the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Bantul.
To collect the data, the writer employs an instrument in which it uses the term of comprehension task since the instrument has never been tested before. In this
study, the writer does not include all types of pronouns but only includes those
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6 which have been familiar for the eighth grade students such as subjective personal
pronouns, objective personal pronouns, possessive personal pronouns, and reflexive pronouns. Further, the writer also limits the type of text involved for this
study, which is the narrative text type. The writer chooses narrative text type because this type of text involved most varied pronouns among any other
pronouns Derewianka, 1990.
D. Research Objectives
The objectives of this research are: a.
To identify the pronoun types which cause comprehension problems to the eighth grade students of junior high school.
b. To identify the pronoun functions which cause comprehension
problems to the eighth grade students of junior high school. c.
To analyze the possible causes of the problems experienced by eighth grade students of junior high school in comprehending pronouns in
narrative texts.
E. Research Benefits
This research hopefully will be beneficial for: 1.
Junior High School English Teachers and Students Through this research, the teachers will be able to understand the problems in
comprehending pronouns in narrative texts. By understanding those factors, the teachers will be able to create some strategies to reduce the problems faced by
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7 the students and to improve the students’ abilities in comprehending pronouns
in reading texts. 2.
Further Researchers This study can be treated as one of the basis for further researchers to conduct
research in pronoun comprehension problems especially when they conduct researches in English Foreign Language EFL reading class in Indonesia.
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