A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT MA ANNURIYYAH RAMBIPUJI JEMBER

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.