JOURNAL ARTICLE

Abstract

This research was intended to describe the research result on the students’ reading comprehension achievement of Analytical Exposition text at SMAN 1 Pujer Bondowoso. Further, it requires the students to comprehend word comprehension, sentence comprehension, paragraph comprehension, and text comprehension. Therefore, a descriptive study was conducted in this research. The data used in this research were collected through reading test, interview, and documentation. The research result showed that the students’ reading comprehension achievement of Analytical Exposition text was good, because their mean score was 75.16. Specifically, the students’ reading comprehension achievement was also analyzed and categorized based on each indicators. In word comprehension, the students’ reading comprehension achievement was categorized as fair since the students’ mean score was 65.01. The students’ reading comprehension achievement in sentence comprehension was categorized as good, because the mean score was 76.60. Then, the students’ reading comprehension achievement in paragraph comprehension was categorized as good because the mean score was 77.60. Meanwhile, the students’ mean score of text comprehension was 81.10 so that their ability was also categorized as good.