Abstract:
This thesis is mainly aimed at analyzing students’ difficulties in reading comprehension of sixth semester students of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo. This thesis was conducted under consideration that grammar and morphology, drawing inference and vocabulary skills play important role in students’ reading comprehension skill. Furthermore, this thesis has two other objectives. First, it is aimed to find out the students’ skill in reading comprehension and second, it is aimed to find out the dominant difficulty faced by students in reading comprehension.
This thesis used descriptive qualitative research as the research design. The subject of the research is the sixth semester students of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year of 2015/2016 which consisted of 28 students. The instrument of the research is the researcher his self. To collect the data, the researcher used reading comprehension test that classified into 3 major difficulties, there are grammar and morphology, inference and vocabulary.
The result of the research showed that the students’ skills of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year of 2015/2016 in reading comprehension are in sufficient level with mean score 61.81. Moreover, the result also showed that in reading comprehension test, most students had difficulties in 3 major skills, even though in the different percentage. Those difficulties are grammar and morphology with 36.8%, inference with 33.17% and vocabulary with 30.03%. The other result of this research shows that the most dominant difficulty made by students in reading comprehension test was grammar and morphology with 36.8%.
