| dc.description.abstract | This research was conducted to describe the eighth grade students’ reading
comprehension achievement of recount text at SMP Negeri 1 Pakusari, Jember in
the 2014/2015 academic year. The research problem of this research was “How
was the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension of a recount text at SMP
Negeri 1 Pakusari, Jember?”
There were seven classes of the eighth grade in the school. It consisted of
class VIIIA, VIIIB, VIIIC, VIIID, VIIIE, VIIIF and VIIIG. There were 2 teachers
that taught in eighth grade level. For VIIIA class up to VIIIE handled by Mr. R
and the rest handled by Mrs. P. The total population of those seven classes is 247
students. In this research, the research participants were determined by using
cluster random sampling with lottery because each class has different schedule of
English lesson. Thus, it was better and easier for the researcher to take two classes
with lottery among class VIIIA up to VIII G randomly. The subject of the try out
in this research was VIIIA class. This class consisted of 35 students. The primary
data of this research were collected from the students’ reading comprehension test
while the supporting data were collected by using interview, observation, and
documentation.
From the data analysis result, the reading comprehension achievement test
was administered to VIII D class. It was found that there were only 2 students or
5.56% of the eighth grade students were categorized as poor and there was no
student (0%) who was classified as very poor category in their reading
comprehension achievement. There were 9 students (25%) who got “excellent”
category. There were 19 students (52.78%) got “good” category and there were 6
students (16.66%) who got “fair” category. In other words, there were 94.44% of
the students had category from fair to good and excellent in their reading
comprehension achievement. It means that the students’ reading comprehension
achievement of recount text was good or excellent.
In addition, the highest achievement and the lowest achievement of the
students’ reading comprehension achievement of recount text were as follows.
The highest reading comprehension achievement score was 100. It was achieved
by the student’s number twenty six and thirty one. According to English teacher,
that case was caused of their attention on the English lesson. They joined the
English lesson very enthusiastically and carefully. They were also no doubt to ask
the English teacher when if they had a problem in understanding the teacher’s
instruction. That information was obtained from the result of the observation.
On the other side, the lowest reading comprehension achievement score
was 40. It was achieved by the student’s number three. That case might be caused
of their lack attention on the English lesson. During observation, it was shown
that they also looked passive in discussing the text in group. It might be caused of
the lack of students’ cooperation in their groups.
According to the statistical computation, the mean score of the VIII D class
students reading comprehension test was 75.47. It was higher than the standard
minimum score of SMP Negeri 1 Pakusari, Jember while the standard minimum
score of SMP Negeri 1 Pakusari, Jember is 70.
Based on the result above, it could be concluded that reading recount text
can give a positive contribution in developing students’ reading comprehension
achievement, especially for the eighth grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Pakusari,
Jember. | en_US |
