A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON THE EIGHT YEAR STUDENT'S LITERAL READING COMPREHENSlON SKILL OF TEXT WITH PICTURES AT SMPN I TEGALDLIMO BANYUWANGI IN THE 2005/2006 ACADEMIC

Abstract

There are some activities that can be done in order to improve reading comprehension and using pictures in the teaching techniques is one of them. For that reason, this research was intended to describe the eight year student's literal reading comprehension skill of text with pictures at SMPN l Tegaldlimo Banyuwangi in the 2005/2006 academic year. The research design was descriptive qualitative. The respondents which has been determined by cluster random sampling by lottery consist of 44 students. The primary data were obtained by reading comprehension test and the collected data were analyzed by the percentage formula. Documentation and interview were used to coJJect the supporting data. From the data analysis, it could be concluded that the eight year students' literal reading comprehension skill of text with pictures at SMPN I Tegaldlimo Banyuwangi was fair (M=66,7%). Based on the indicators, the results are as follows. On the average, the eight year student's word comprehension skill of the text with pictures was good (75,2%), the eight year student's sentence comprehension skill text with pictures was fair (68,8%), the eight year student's paragraph comprehension skill text with pictures was fair (43,3%). Based on the results, it is suggested to the English teacher that she should use pictures consistently as media of teaching literal reading comprehension. In this way, the teaching learning process of reading comprehension can be more understandable, and interesting and give more exercise to the students to increase the literal reading comprehension ability.