@unpublished{eprintsunpak9232,
          author = {Anggia Wildan Gina},
           title = {Submitted to the English Language Education Study Program Faculty of Teacher
Training and Educational Sciences Pakuan Univesity as a Partial Fulfillment of
the Requirements for the Sarjana Pendidikan Examination},
          school = {Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan},
           month = {June},
            year = {2019},
        abstract = {ABSTRACT
Reading is an important role in developing knowledge. Through reading students
can absorb information, experience, and ideas provided in books. Main idea is the
most important in a paragraph or passage. Unfortunately, many students still have
difficulty in identifying main idea. This research is conducted to find out what
students? difficulties identifying main idea in descriptive text are. This research
conducted at SMP Nuraida Islamic Boarding School to eighth grade students. In
this research qualitative approach and descriptive method were used. Purposive
sampling was used to take the sample. Nine students were taken as the
respondents. The data were collected through documentation, questionnaires, and
interview. The result was the students are not able to read for meanings and read
for ideas, difficult to comprehend text with difficult words and phrases, and lack
of strategy to find out main idea.
Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Main Idea, Descriptive Text},
             url = {http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9232/}
}