AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY ON NEWS ITEM TEXT FOR THE XII GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA SWASTA IMELDA MEDAN

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the types of errors appeared in students’ reading, especially in news item text and the causes of errors made by the students in reading news item text. This research was conducted in SMA Swasta Imelda Medan grade XII in academic year 2023/2024 This research was carried out by using qualitative method which used transcript instruments from the results of students’ reading news item text. Then, from the results of the transcript read by the students, the researcher examined them to find out what types of errors often appeared in students’ reading ability, especially in news item text and the causes of errors. The results of this research showed the types of errors in students’ reading ability include subtitution, addition, omission, repetition, reversal and unknown word. Then the results of this research also showed that the most frequent errors in students’ reading ability were subtitution with a total of 400 errors with percentage 37,8%, the second is unknown word error with a total of 313 with percentage 29,5%, the third is omission error with a total of 210 with percentage 19,8%, the fourth is addition error with a total of 62 with percentage 5,8%, the fifth is repetition error with a total of 61 with percentage 5,7% , and the last is reversal error with a total of 12 with percentage 1,1%. This problem influenced by cognitive and psychological factors. The students felt lack of vocabulary, lack of pronunciation, feeling nervous and lack of confidence.