A Study of the Tenth Grade Students’ Narrative Text Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMAN Tamanan Bondowoso

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe the tenth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement of narrative texts at SMAN Tamanan Bondowoso. The research design was descriptive qualitative. The area determination method of this research was chosen by using purposive method. The subjects were the X MIA 2 students for tryout test and for reading comprehension achievement test were X MIA 1 students of SMA Negeri Tamanan Bondowoso in the 2014/2015 academic year. The data of this research were obtained from the students’ reading test, documents and interview. The result of the Tenth Grade students’ narrative text reading comprehension achievement was 64,28 and it was categorized as fair. The reading comprehension achievement showed that there were only 3 students (10,71%) who got “excellent” category that had range of 81-100. As many as 5 students (17,85%) got “good” category and the range was between 70-80. In addition, there were 13 students (46,43%) whose “fair” category and the range was between 60-69. There were also 7 students (25%) who obtained scores between 40-59 and got “poor” category. The last, there were no students (0%) who got “very poor" category and the range was <39.