The Study of Secondary Students' Report Text Reading Comprehension Achievement in EFL (English as a Foreigh Language) Contexts

Abstract

This article describes the result of the research on the secondary students' report text reading comprehension achievement with qualitative research design. The area of the research was SMPN 1 Jember determined by using purposive method. The proportional random sampling was used to determine the ninth grade students as the respondents. The research data were collected by test, interview and documentation, and the data from the test were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The result showed that the ninth grade students' report text reading comprehension achievement was in the category of good with the highest score range; 81-90 (88.75%) in word comprehension; 81- 90 (86.25%) in sentence comprehension; and 81-90 (81.42%) in paragraph comprehension, but in text comprehension, their achievement was classified enough/fair with the lowest score range; 71-80 (78.57%).