An Analysis Of Students' Interest In Reading By Using Narrative Text In Class XI Of MA Al Fathaanah 2022/2023

Abstract

This study aims to describe the analysis of students' reading interest through narrative text at MA Al Fathaanah Pasir Panjang. This research was conducted on grade XI students, in academic year 2022/2023 as the research subjects. This study also aims to find out the process of using narrative text material in analysing students' reading interest in class XI of  MA Al Fathaanah and to find out students' perspectives after using narrative text in English learning. This type of research is descriptive qualitative research. The participants in this study are all grade XI students at MA Al Fathaanah pasir panjang with a total of 13 students. Data collection instruments in this study were observation sheets and interviews. Techniques for data analysis were data reduction, data presentation, and comparing the data. Data were collected through observation and interviews with a total of 13 students. The results of this study indicate that students' reading interest in English subject is still low , and the students have not felt interested in reading narrative stories in English. This is based on students' dislike of reading because they are difficult especially in pronunciation, word processing and grammar. However, some of them also said that they enjoyed it, although not all students.