Types and Micro Skills of Reading Comprehension Test of National Examination for Junior High School Year 2010-2014: A Content Analysis

• Main Author: Suciati, Endah (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2016.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/1/02.%20JURNAL%20.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/15/03.%20HALAMAN%20DEPAN.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/4/04.%20CHAPTER%20I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/5/05.%20CHAPTER%20II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/6/06.%20CHAPTER%20III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/8/07.%20CHAPTER%20IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/9/08.%20CHAPTER%20V%20.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/12/09.%20BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/13/10.%20APPENDIX.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/40936/14/01.%20SURAT%20PERNYATAAN.pdf
• Keywords: L Education (General)

The current study is to observe the dominant micro skills of reading comprehension used in National Examination. The focus of the study is the content of reading comprehension material in Indonesian National testing system for English that is called as National Examination/Ujian Akhir National (UAN). The objectives of the research are to analyze the items material in English National Examination in order to find out: 1) The types and micro skills of reading comprehension in English National Examination (UAN) year 2010 till 2014, 2) The frequency of micro skills reading comprehension material in English National Examination (UAN) year 2010 till 2014, 3) The dominant micro skills of reading comprehension in English National Examination (UAN) year 2010 till 2014. The researcher used qualitative descriptive as the method design and used study document or documentation as the data collection technique. The document of English National Examination (UAN) year 2010-2014 became the main data of the research. The researcher analyzed the data for each year of UAN document and differentiated the data obtained to reading comprehension and writing skill. In this case, the researcher only examined the reading comprehension material. The findings of the study are: (1) Types and micro skills of reading comprehension in UAN 2010-2014 are Main idea, Semantic, Communicative function of goals, deixis, and drawing conclusion. (2) The result of the frequency of micro skills reading test questions shows that the average percentage of each types are: Main idea (34.74%), Semantic material (20.04%), Deixis Reference (11.60%), Communicative function of goal (10.80%) and drawing conclusion (23.45%). (3) The dominant micro skills of reading comprehension is about Main Idea material and then Drawing conclusion material.