A Study of the Eighth Grade Students' Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMPN 1 Panji Situbondo

Abstract

This quantitative research aimed at describing the reading achievement of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Panji Situbondo. Reading itself is known as one of the four skills in English that is required to learn by the students. However, some of the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Panji Situbondo had difficulty to comprehend a text, especially for a descriptive text. Thus, it was very important to conduct a research on reading comprehension achievement by using four indicators, namely the ability to comprehending word, comprehending sentence, comprehending paragraph, and comprehending text. As the result, the researcher found that the Eighth grade students' reading comprehension achievements at SMPN 1 Panji Situbondo was classified as “fair”; because, most of the students got the score between 60 up to 69.