Student’s Learning Difficulties and The Strategies to Overcome at Eighth Grade Student of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung.Thesis. English Education Department. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung

Susanti, Sri (2014) Student’s Learning Difficulties and The Strategies to Overcome at Eighth Grade Student of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung.Thesis. English Education Department. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. [ Skripsi ]

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Keywords: learning difficulties,learning strategies English is foreign language for Indonesian learners. It is common if some learners face difficulties in learning English, especially in English skill(listening,speaking,reading and writing).When learners face diffculties in learning, it will obstruct their learning process because they can not connect information to their brain. Successful learners have many and different ways to overcome their difficulties in learning English.Using learning strategieswill help the students to be easier in understanding the material. Besides, learning strategies is important employed by the students to overcome their difficulties in learning English The formulation of the research problems were: 1) What language skill are the most difficult face by students at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung? 2) What are the cause factors of learning difficulties in English? 3) What are the students’ strategies to overcome their difficulties in learning English? The purposes of this research were: 1) to find out the language skill are the most difficult face by students at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol Tulungagung, 2) to knowthe cause factorsof learning difficulties in English, 3) to know the students’ strategies to overcome their difficulties. This research employed inductive descriptive with qualitative approach. The subjects of the research were the eighth grade student of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol, especially VIII Lthat consist of 30 students and six students as the subject in this research. The research instruments used by the researcher to collect the data were interview, documentationand observation. All the data gained from the instruments were collected and analyzed qualitatively, the researcher explained the data in a descriptive explanation. The findings of this research were as follows. First,language skill are most difficult face by the students at eighth grade of SMPN 1 Sumbergempol are speaking skill and writing skill. And the second, the cuase factors of learning difficulties are : 1) do not like English, 2) the class atmosphere, 3) teaching method and 4)technology. And the third the students’ strategies to overcome the difficulties employed by the students are : 1) Opening dictionary and reading a book, 2) doing exercises and practicing, 3) joining group discussion and asking to the friend or teacher, and 4) studying hard. Every student has different strategies to overcome their learning difficulties. They use various learning strategies. Using various learning strategies support the students to achieve a good score. Based on the result above, the students are hoped to overcome their difficulties using their own ways to make them easier in learning English and they can improve their English skill. And the teacher is suggested to apply interesting method in teaching and learning process to make the students enjoy.

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