Composed to Fulfill One of the Requirements to Obtain S1 Degree at the English Education Program, Langua. Compose to Fulfill One of the Requirements to Obtain S1 Degree at the English Education Program, Language, and Arts Education Department,. State that the thesis entitled “A Study on Literal Reading Comprehension Achievement of the Eighth Grade Students at SMP Negeri 14 Jember” is truly my own writing, and it has not been proposed to any institutions, everything written in this thesis.
A Study on Literal Reading Comprehension Achievement of the Eighth Grade Students at SMP Negeri 14 Jember; Ummu Barorotul Hasanah. From the test, it could be calculated that the mean score of the students reading test comprehension achievement of recount text was 70,42. Based on the interpretation of the score level, the students mean score was categorized as “good”.
Because most of the students (21 students out of 36 students) had ability in reading comprehension covering word comprehension, sentence comprehension, paragraph comprehension and text comprehension. First of all, I would like to thank to the God the Almighty, who always leads and provides blessing and guidance to me, so I am able to finish this thesis entitled “A Study on Literal Reading Comprehension Achievement of the Eighth Grade Students at SMP Negeri 14 Jember”.
INTRODUCTION
Speaking and writing are skills that involve production on the part of the language user. Listening and reading are receptive skills in the sense that the language user receives information from the written or spoken form of the language. One of the important skills in English that must be mastered by students is reading.
People consider reading as an important activity, so that people usually say that reading is the window of the world. Therefore, reading is one of the four main skills in language learning and become one of the difficult skill one for a foreign language learner. How is the literal reading comprehension ability of the eighth grade students’ reading achievement of SMPN 14 Jember in the 2015/2016 academic year?”.
In relation to the problem of the research, the objective of the research is to describe the literal reading comprehension ability of the eighth grade students of SMPN 14 Jember in the 2017/2018 academic year. By reflection on the result of the research, the teacher may decide for the reflection purpose regarding reading comprehension achievement whether or not it is necessary, for example to improve on maintain the existing implementation a particular technique.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
It is the ability of the readers to interpret the explicit meaning of the text. It means that the ability of the readers to grasp the implied meaning through what is literally stated in the text. Reading comprehension related to construct the understanding of the content the whole text rather that the meaning of words or sentences in the text.
It can be said that when the students want to understand the words, they should understand about the meaning of the words in a sentence first. In understanding the word “arrived”, the students should know that the word might have different meaning when it up in a sentence. The best answer of the question above is “came (d)” because it is the closest meaning of “arrived”.
In this research, the understanding of the words will help the students measure their sentence comprehension. By finding the supporting sentences of the paragraph above, the students can answer the question. The best answer of the question is C (he always cuts the leaves and the branches of the mango tree), because this option is provided in the paragraph and the sentence make the main idea clearer.
It means that an author hopes that the reader will be able to understand the content of the text. According to Grellet (1996:4), the readers reading the text is one of the reasons for reading to. Through lecturing technique, there is little or no active participation of the students involving in the teaching learning process.
On one side, it is good for transmitting information simultaneously from the teacher to a large number of the students. Therefore, in this research, the researcher uses the descriptive study because the researcher wants to know about the condition of the students’ reading comprehension achievement at the school. This research aims to describe the students’ literal reading comprehension skill and the data are in the form of the students’ score of reading comprehension test.
In this research, the purposive method to determine the research area use and this is in line with this Fraenkel’s and Wallen’s note that if “the researchers assume they can use their knowledge of the population to judge whether or not a particular sample will be representative”, it is called purposive method. In this research, the researcher conducted reading tryout test to know the difficulty index of the test items.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
The teacher should explain the different meaning of the unfamiliar word based on the content of the text. In this case, the students did not see the meaning of word by word, but how the meaning of the word was combined together to show complete message based on the certain context. By giving the text to the students and then the students must answer all of the questions based on the text given 8 What types of task and test you usually use.
10 Is there any difficulty to teach reading of recount Yes, most of the students are not. The essay score is more higher than multiple choices score and then the score is divided based on the amount of the question to get 100 score for the best score. Then choose the correct answer by crossing (X) a, b, c or d based on the text on the answer sheet.
Not only visit Australian Volunteer in there, but I also enjoyed the beauty of the island. We woke up at 4 am to see the three different coloured lakes at dawn” (Line 10) What is the antonym of the word “different”. 64 Choose the correct answer by crossing (X) a, b, c or d on the answer sheet based on the text.
73 The Analysis of the Odd Number Scores of Each Item in Try Out Class (VIIIC). 74 The Analysis of the Even Number Scores of Each Item in Try Out Class (VIIIC). 82 Choose the correct answer by crossing (X) a, b, c or d on the answer sheet based on the text.
