eprintid: 9232 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 48 dir: disk0/00/00/92/32 datestamp: 2025-03-08 06:34:00 lastmod: 2025-03-08 06:34:00 status_changed: 2025-03-08 06:34:00 type: thesis metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Gina, Anggia Wildan creators_NPM: 031112085 contributors_name: Deddy, Sofyan contributors_name: Lungguh, Halira Vonti contributors_NIDN: 0008015601 contributors_NIDN: 0411068205 corp_creators: Universitas Pakuan corp_creators: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan corp_creators: pendidikan Bahasa Inggris 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 ispublished: unpub divisions: Pro_PBEN full_text_status: public 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 date: 2019-06 date_type: published institution: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan department: Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris thesis_type: Skripsi thesis_name: Sarjana citation: Gina, Anggia Wildan (2019) 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. Skripsi thesis, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan. document_url: http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9232/1/Skripsi%20Anggia%20Wildan%20031112085.pdf