Name : Sanisa Latifah

NIM : 1911204067
Subject : Research Proposal Writing

Preface

I have read 3 thesis references entitled “The Analysis of Students' Difficulties on

Understanding Article Text on Seventh Semester of English Program at IAIN Parepare”, “An
Analysis of Students’ Obstacles in Reading Comprehension Using Google Classroom for
Twelfth Social 2 at SMA NEGERI 1 Kota Jambi” and “Case Study on Students’ Difficulties
in Comprehending Narrative Text at SMPN 1 SIMAN Ponorogo”. And here I chose the
thesis “The Analysis of Students' Difficulties on Understanding Article Text on Seventh
Semester of English Program at IAIN Parepare” to be analyzed and compared it to guidelines
for writing scientific papers at UINSI Samarinda, because from what i see, this thesis is the
one that mostly relevant to the thesis proposal title of mine).

Thesis Title : The Analysis of Students' Difficulties on Understanding Article Text on

Seventh Semester of English Program at IAIN Parepare

Thesis Researcher : Amirulhaq Bin Marra

University : State Islamic Institute Parepare

Thesis Publication Year : 2021

Analysis of CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION

A. Background (in this section it is written as Background meanwhile in the writing

rules based on Guidelines for writing scientific papers at UINSI it is written as
Research Background)
The researcher explained that in teaching reading it is very important to be able to
build students' abilities and knowledge so that they can understand the contents of the
reading text. Such as ability to read various texts in English, ability to adjust reading
styles according to the purpose of reading (i. e skimming, scanning), and ability to have
critical perspective on the content of the texts. She also tells that student of university
basically must have good comprehension in reading and must be able to read well based
on reading aspects, moreover English students who are in English major in every
university or institution. Students also must have ability on understanding reading text,
one of which is article text.
But, unfortunately the most of students from seventh semester of English Program
IAIN Parepare, the ability in comprehending the reading materials text specially Article is
 still low, some of the reasons are they do not understand how to use reading
comprehension strategies and loss of their concentration in reading activities. However,
most of the students still have difficulties in reading English text from materials that
adopted from newspapers, articles, textbooks, magazines and journals. Based on this
situation, the researcher is interested to analyze the students’ difficulties in reading
comprehension and find out what are the difficulties factors that the students faced in
reading comprehension for Article text.

B. Research Question (in this section it is written as Research Question and it is different
from the guidelines for writing scientific papers at UINSI because it is written as
Research Problems instead)
Based on the background above, the researcher formulates two research questions as
follow below:
1. What are the main difficult aspects of understanding article text that faced by students
of Seventh semester of English Program IAIN Parepare?
2. What are the main factors that caused students difficulty on understanding article text
on Seventh semester of English Program IAIN Parepare?

C. Objective of the Research (in this section it is written as Objective of the Research
while in our University's Guidelines for writing scientific papers it is written as
Research Objectives)
Relating to the problem statements above the objectives of the research is to find out:
1. To find out what is the main difficult aspect faced by students on understanding
article text on seventh semester of English Program at IAIN Parepare.
2. To find out the main factors cause the students difficulties on understanding article
text on seventh semester English Program at IAIN Parepare.

D. Significance of the Research (in this section it is written as Significance of the

Research while in the guidelines for writing scientific papers at UINSI Samarinda, it
is written as Research Significance)
The researcher expect that this research will give the contribution for:
1. The Student
The students can evaluate themselves after knowing their difficulties on
understanding article text.
2. The Teacher
This researcher can help the teacher when teacher knows about the students
difficulties on understanding article, then teacher can find some better strategies of
learning reading to develop student’s ability on understanding article text.
3. The Next Researcher
Finally, the next researcher can develop the research either find method or strategy for
solving student’s difficulties on understand article text.
Additional notes:

1) Based on the guidelines for writing scientific papers at UINSI, after section D that
discusses about Research Significance, next is the section E that discusses about Research
Scope and Limitation, and lastly, section F discusses Definition of the Key-terms.
However, this thesis entitled The Analysis of Students' Difficulties on Understanding
Article Text on Seventh Semester of English Program at IAIN Parepare, only discusses
until Significance of the Research, so that is the differences between writing chapter 1 of
the thesis between UINSI Samarinda and IAIN Parepare.
2) The order of Chapter I Introduction from UINSI Samarinda :
A. Research Backgrounds
B. Research Problems
C. Research Objectives
D. Research Significance
E. Research Scope and Limitation
F. Definition of the Key-terms

The order of Chapter I Introduction from IAIN Parepare :

A. Background
B. Research Question
C. The Objective of the Research
D. Significance of the Research