| dc.description.abstract | This research was conducted to tenth grade students of MA Annuriyyah
Rambipuji Jember in the 2015/2016 academic year, as the research subject, which
was determined by purposive method and the researcher used cluster random
sampling. The number of the respondents was 32 students. The data of this
research were in the form of the students' score of reading comprehension
achievement test and the supporting data were obtained from documentation and
interview. Interview was used to know the way of teaching reading taught in the
tenth grade students at MA Annuriyyah Rambipuji Jember. Meanwhile,
documentation was used to get the data about the teachers' lesson plan, the
English daily examination score of class X, the English curriculum that was being
used at MA Annuriyyah Rambipuji Jember in the 2015/2016 academic year and
the names of the research respondents.
Reading comprehension achievement test was intended at measuring the
students’ reading comprehension achievement of narrative text. Before giving the
reading test, the researcher conducted the try out test to measure the reliability of
the test to know the difficulty level of the test items, whether the instruction was
clear or not and the time allocation was enough or not. The try out test was given
to another class who did not belong to the research respondents.
The result of the tenth grade students' reading comprehension test of
narrative text covering word comprehension, sentence comprehension, paragraph
comprehension and text comprehension was categorized as "fair". In average, the
students got 60 up to 80 with the mean score 61.91. The highest percentage of
four indicators was "word comprehension" with the percentage of 70.31% which
belonged to "good" category. Then, the percentage of the sentence comprehension
was 68.75% which belonged to "fair" category. The percentage of paragraph
comprehension was 60.94% which was classified as "fair" category. The lowest
percentage of the four indicators was "text comprehension” with the percentage
47.66% that was classified as “poor" category.
In conclusion, the tenth grade students' reading comprehension
achievement at MA Annuriyyah Rambipuji Jember was categorized as "fair". It
means that the students were good enough in comprehending the narrative text
covering the word, sentence, paragraph, and text comprehension. However, there
was nearly most of the students still faced difficulty in text comprehension.
Therefore, it can be suggested to give the students more exercise to increase their
reading skills, especially in text comprehension. For future researchers, this
research results is expected to be a useful reference to conduct a further research
with the same topic in different designs. | en_US |
