| dc.description.abstract | This research was intended to describe the grade-7 students’s Reading
Comprehension ability tested by using authentic reading materials from Internet. It
was conducted at SMP Islam Kunir Lumajang which was chosen by purposive
method with the following considerations: (1) reading comprehension class by using
authentic reading materials from Internet has been conducted at SMP Islam Kunir
Lumajang since 2007, (2) there had been no researcher yet who had investigated the
phenomena in this school, (3) the principal had given permission to the researcher to
conduct the research, so that the data could be obtained from this school. The subject
of the research were the grade-7 students of SMP Islam Kunir Lumajang in the
2010/2011 academic year. They were divided into 2 classes and each class consisted
of 22 and 21 students. Thus the total number of the students was 43 students. In this
research, the researcher used population method to determine the respondents,
because the number of the respondents was less than 100 respondents. The main data
were collected by using reading comprehension test while the interview, observation,
and documentation were used to collect the supporting data. The problem of this
research was” How is the grade 7 students’ reading comprehension ability tested by
authentic reading materials from the internet at SMP Islam Kunir Lumajang in the
2010/2011 academic year?” Based on the results of the data analysis, 80,21% of the
students were fine in reading comprehension ability tested by using authentic reading
materials from Internet and 19,61% were failed in reading comprehension ability
tested by using authentic reading materials from Internet.
Based on the results of the data analysis, it was found that among 4 indicators, the
highest achievement on the students’ reading comprehension trough authentic reading
materials from Internet was on text comprehension (76,74%), it was lied on excellent
category. Then, it was followed by sentences comprehension (58,13%), it was lied on
excellent and good category. Next, it was followed by word comprehension
(53,48%),it was lied on excellent and good category. This might happen because the
English teacher often used the authentic reading materials from Internet in teaching
reading comprehension. In contrast, the lowest achievement among the indicators was
paragraph comprehension (44,18%), it was lied on poor category and failed category.
This might be happen because the English teacher only gave a few of practice in | en_US |
