AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN FINDING THE MORAL
VALUE OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE
EIGHT GRADE OF MTs N 1 BANDAR LAMPUNG IN 2017/2018
ACADEMIC YEAR
Based on preliminary research that was done by the writer at MTs N 1 Bandar
Lampung, the writer found that the students still had difficulties in finding moral
value, problem and difficulties with previous knowledge and metacognition.
Therefore, objective of this research is to identify the factors that cause students
difficulties in finding moral value of narrative text.
The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative. The subject of this
research was 65 students of eighth grade of MTs N 1 Bandar Lampung, who had the
lowest score in preliminary research. The technique of collecting data was by
analyzing documentation of test and giving questionnaire to the students. The
questionnaire was done to know the factors that causes students’ difficulties in
finding moral value of narrative text.
The factors that causes students difficulties in finding moral value were exception in
the decoding process, previous knowledge, motivation or perseverance, high level
cognitive skills, metacognition. Based on the result of questionnaire, it can be
concluded, that most students were fluent in reading narrative texts in English
because they often read narrative text. So, they can read the text in English easily.
And then, most of students had problem in their previous knowledge, so they felt
difficult to determine the moral value. Although most of students do not have
problems in motivation or perseverance because they like to read narrative text, they
do not know how to find the moral value in narrative text because they do not
understand the story, so they felt difficult to determine the moral value. Furthermore,
most of students have problems in their metacognition, because they must read the
narrative text repeatedly to determine the moral value. If they read only once it is
difficult to determine the moral value. Most of students felt difficult to understand
the narrative text especially to determine the moral value if the text is not translated in
Indonesian. And then, they must summarize the narrative text to determine the moral
value, because they felt difficult to determine the moral value if they do not
summarize the text