A DESCRIPTIVE OF STUDENTS CRITICAL READING SKILLS IN NARRATIVE TEXTS

Abstract

The objective of this study is to know whether the response student and Finding strategies in teaching reading especially critical reading skills in narrative texts. The research problem is how students respond and what strategies are used by students to critical reading skills in narrative texts. The qualitative approach was applied in this study with a case study as the research design using sheet observation and guided free interview as instrument research. In this research, subject observation consists of 17 students and the subject interview consists of 5 students that have been choosy from the result observation was given. Based on the results of the observation and interview, the researcher could conclude that student respond and strategy was using student in study critical reading skills in the narrative text was good. This result indicates that the narrative text was effective to increase understanding reading skills students in predicting, synthesizing, and evaluating a text. Through the checklist observation, the student knows and understands critical reading in narrative text, but they still lack in using critical reading to found a message in the story. Besides that, the interview found that students knew strategy in critical reading like predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing narrative text. It can be concluded that students could easier to understand the content and purpose of narrative text. As a result, it can help students in learning to critical reading in the text narrative that their knowledge skills read can increase.