The Development Of English Learning Media Through Powtoon To Improve Students’
Reading Comprehension At Xi Grade Of Smk Negeri 1 Dayun
15579 Syntax Literate, Vol. 7, No. 9, September 2022
Introduction
Reading comprehension is not only read the text but also know the meaning of
the text (Mogea, 2019). According to (Michael, Ejeng, Udit, & Yunus, 2019) reading
comprehension is the level of text comprehension that focuses on the recognition of
words, which then gives rise to meaning; understanding is the ability to fully interpret
the texts. The importance of reading as a language skill should never be underestimated.
It is one of the most important ways to obtain information, particularly for educational
purposes (Al-Jarrah & Ismail, 2018). According to (Saraswati, 2021) students are
expected to master reading by achieving the competency standard and basic competency
which are established based on the curriculum 2013. Furthermore, students should
master in reading because there are many enhanced books written in English (Andrés,
2020). On the other statement by Tang et al. (2019) that Reading comprehension is
more than just reading aloud; it is reading that is established to understand the meaning
of words, sentences, and paragraphs as they are.
If a student basically reads aloud but does not understand the content of the text,
the student is failing to comprehend the passage (Tang, Asrifan, Chen, Haedar, &
Agussalim, 2019). Finding the technique or method to solve the problem is critical for
the teacher (Yenice, 2011).
In reading, most of students will encounter some unfamiliar words while reading
(Nation & Coady, 2014). This means that reading comprehension is not easy to do. This
is mentioned by (Rahayuningsih, 2020) that in fact, there are still a lot of students who
struggle with reading comprehension. (Satriani, 2018) also argue that students may get
difficulties in reading comprehension. According to (Nurjanah, 2018) (Shofi & Jannah,
2022) in reading, students commonly have problems due to a lack of vocabulary.
Students are struggle with many issues when it comes to understanding the text, such as
vocabulary knowledge, background knowledge, grammatical problems, and poor
reading strategies, all of which are critical to reducing the difficulty (Wyatt, Midraj,
Ayish, Bradley, & Balfaqeeh, 2021). Students are struggle to determine the main idea
and locate specific information in the texts (Englert & Mariage, 2020). Hence, students
may have difficulty understanding reading text due to incorrect word identification and
recognition (Roembke, Hazeltine, Reed, & McMurray, 2019). Moreover, another factor
of students’ reading problems is that students have less motivation in reading. One of
the problems in reading is caused by a lack of motivation and ability to read. According
to (Dedi, 2018) motivation is a type of internal drive that pushes someone to do
activities like reading in order to achieve learning objectives. The reason why students
are less motivated is because they are feel bored with the teachers' traditional approach,
which makes them less motivated to learn to read (Rizqon, 2021). Furthermore, the use
of less innovative learning media is also a cause of reading problems. As stated by
(Widyahening, 2018) the use of learning media that is less innovative makes students
feel bored. However, it is still necessary for students to master in reading
comprehension (Dhillon, Herman, & Syafryadin, 2020).