THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN LITERAL READING COMPREHENSION
Abstract
To find out the students’ ability in reading comprehension is the purpose of this study. The research population was the third year students which consisted of three parallel clasess. For selecting sample, random sampling was used by the reseacher for taking five students in each class. Then, totally 15 students became as the sample. The data collection was taken through two kinds of instruments, namely non-test and test. Non-test consisted of questionaire, and interview meanwhile test itself used was on the literal comprehension level. In analyzing the data, the non test was analyzed descriptively then the test was analyzed statistically. The result of test shows that the mean score of students is 71. In short, the ability of the third year students of SMP Negeri 11 Palu in reading comprehension text is categorized as good level.
Keywords: ability, reading comprehension, Narrative texts.
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