The writer : Oh ndak payu,……..tertawa ya ya. Kalau di buku
Bahasa Inggrisnya ada gambar daerah adik-adik seneng gak?do you like a book which presents pictures
of your region? The students
: Ya ya gak gak tertawa, bercanda yes…yes no…nojust kidding
The writer : Biasanya kalau belajar kelompok lebih suka di dalam
rumah atau di luar rumah yang di alam misalnya? do you usually prefer studying with your friends outside in
the nature or to in your home? The students
: Alamnature The writer
: Kalau adik-adik pengin tau tentang hal yang adik- adik belum tau, misalnya tentang dunia, adik-adik lebih
suka yang tentang keindahan alam atau Negara atau kota atau tokoh atau hewan?if you want to know
about something you have not known before, it will be about what? A nice naturea countrya characteran
animal? The students
: Alamnature The writer
:Tentang alam? Kalau yang putra tu, untuk pengetahuan yang tentang dunia senengnya pengin tau
tentang apa?about nature? How about you, the boys? What do you want to know about the world
knowledge? The students
: Binatanganimals
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e. The Students’ problems in Reading Tasks
It really should become more attention in designing reading materials, the students of SMPN I Tanjungsari, especially the grade VIII students, most
of the students do not understand the meaning both the questions and the texts. It is difficult for them to translate sentences in the text. They usually do
not know what the passage is about, what and how to identify some phrases in a text, and how to answer some questions fast. They often feel confused in
doing reading tasks. The other problem is they are not creative in realizing and solving the problems. Most of the students do not have a habit to open a
dictionary to find out meaning. They also never behave creative to make a note for vocabulary.
W : Apa kesulitan adik-adik dalam reading bahasa Inggris? What
are your problems in reading? S
:Mengartikan……. Finding the meaning W
:Mengartikannya yang sulit ya, …? it’s difficult for you to find the meaning, isn’t it?
S :Ya yes.
W :Kalau ada vocab gitu biasanya adik-adik gimana kalau tidak
tau artinya? How do you usually do if you find difficult words or vocab?.
S :Yaa ………tertawa malu, seolah bingung bagaimana
menjawabnya. Yes….smile embarrassedly like being confused how must they answer.
W :Apakah adik-adik buka kamus kemudian mencari artinya?
Ditulis gak? do you usually open your dictionary and find the meaning?
S :Tidak…ya……..ditulis ya ada yang menjawab tidak tapi
malu ketauan No,…yes we write them some students answered “no” slowly and the others said yes.
W : Kalau adik……tidak? How about you?
S : Ditulis …….. I write too
W :Yang tidak tadi siapa? Tidak ditulis ya?........ya tidak apa-apa
jujur ja adik-adik gak papa. Who said no? it’s fine just trust me, no problem….
S :Ya yes
W :Kalau untuk text, misalnya text Descriptive, text Recount, text
Narrative apa yang adik-adik gak paham dari text itu? What difficulties do you have about texts, for example for
Descriptive, Recount and Narrative text? S
:seperti bingung tidak menjawab being confused to answer W
:Kemarin apa yang membuat adik-adik sulit dalam mengerjakan test kenaikan kelas kemarin? what’s your
problems in doing your final semester test last week? S
:Gak bisa mengartikan lho mbak,….gak bisa mengartikan. Soalnya sulit. I could not know the meaning, I didn’t
understand the questions and the test was so difficult.
