Error Analysis on Reading Comprehension at Vocational School

Abstract

This research was conducted to know the students’ errors in reading comprehension from 25students as the sample, there are 15 students have difficulties in identifying main idea, 5 students havedifficulties in identifying name, 22 students have difficulties in identifying spesific word, 7 students havedifficulties in finding reference, and 22 students have difficulties in understanding the structure of thetext. It can be seen from the high number of percentage of participants who answered wrong on everyquestion of the test.This research is a case study and it uses descriptive quantitative method. The subjectsof the research are fifty fife students of the ten grade students at SMK SWASTA Palapa, Pancur Batu,Pancur Batu who are detected as having difficulties in understanding English reading descriptive textand an English teacher who handles the classes. The test were used as the instruments of this study. Thetest was used to obtain the data about the students’ difficulties in understanding English readingdescriptive text.The finding shows that the majority of the students find difficulties in identifying mainidea of the text, more than half of students made mistake in identifying specific word in the text andmany students cannot understand the structure of the text. Whereas, the factors causing the students’difficulties in understanding English reading descriptive text are learners’ background, teachingtechnique,.and the learners’ environment.