dc.description.abstract | This research was descriptive research in the Tenth grade students’ reading
comprehension achievement tested by cloze test at MA Miftahul Ulum Kalisat
Jember in the 2012/2013 academic year. The problem of the research was “How is
the tenth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement tested by cloze test at
MA Miftahul Ulum Kalisat Jember in the 2011/2012 academic year?”. The specific
objectives was to describe the tenth grade students’ reading comprehension
achievement tested by cloze test at MA Miftahul Ulum Kalisat Jember in the
2011/2012 academic year.
In determining the respondents, the proportional random sampling by lottery
was applied. The number of the respondents was 24 students (20% of the population)
taken proportionally from 120 students that were divided into three classes. To collect
the data, test and observation were used. The reading test was used to collect the main
data dealing with the students reading comprehension achievement tested by cloze
test in the form of scores. Observation was used to obtain the supporting data. The
collected main data was analyzed quantitatively and by using percentage formula.
Then the result of data analysis was described to answer the result problem.
Generally, the result show that the tenth grade students at MA Miftahul Ulum
Kalisat Jember in the 2011/2012 academic year was good, the highest score 90-95
were achieved by 5 students or 20,8 % out of total 24 respondents.
Specifically, based on the observation, the result of the teaching reading
comprehension to the tenth grade students at MA Miftahul Ulum Kalisat in the
2011/2012 academic year was the teacher taught based on the lesson plan, he also
used direct method or lecturing to test reading comprehension using cloze test. And
for the result of their reading comprehension achievement tested by cloze test were
consist of: 20.8% “Excellent”, 8.3% “Very Good”, 45.8% “Good”, 12.5% “Fair” and
12.5% “Poor” | en_US |