| dc.description.abstract | Teaching English in junior high school is mamly aimed at making the
students be able to communicate in English. Unfortunately, most of school
graduates are still poor in comprehending reading passage. This problem in this
research was: to what extent is the literal reading comprehension ability of the
second year students of SL TP 2 Jember in the 2000/2001 academic year?The
respondents taken were 47 students. The technique used was proportional .
random sampling. Tne methods used to collect the secondary data were
interview , documentation and observation while test was used to collect the
primary data. The result of test were analysed descriptive quantitaively. It can be
concluded that the second year students of SL TP 2 Jember in the 2000/2001
academic year still had difficult in their reading ability, it is shown by that result
of the literal reading comprehension ability was enough classification ( 58.04 %).
The most difficult of literal reading comprehension ability was in literal sentence
ability (50.85 %) , while the easiest one was the stated main idea a,bility (83.83
%). And then, literal word meaning was 54,68 % or poor classification. Finally, it
is suggested that the students should be trained their reading ability, especially
on literal sentence meaning in order to develop their reading comprehension
ability. | en_US |
