Abstract:
This descriptive research was aimed at knowing the ability of the third
year students of SMPN2 kuantan hilir in comprehending narrative texts. In other
words, it is intended to investigate a variety of educational problems. This study
consists of one variable. A set of test is given to get the students scores. There are
30 items in the test, and the duration is 60 minutes in which the students needed
to answer the questions. Before the test is given to the sample of the research,
from the participant it has been tried out to 30 students class VIII I and real test
30 students class VIII 2 of SMPN2 Kuantan Hilir to check whether it is valid and
reliable. The result of this research showed that the ability of the third year
students SMPN2 Kuantan Hilir in comprehending narrative texts fall into Average
to good level because the mean score was 64.8. It means that the students have
ability in comprehending narrative text, but they still got problem in
comprehending this kind of text. Based on the research, there are some
suggestions of the research; the writer hopes that this study gives valuable
contribution to the students, and for the teacher and readers in term of reading
comprehension especially reading narrative text which include five components of
reading comprehension. And the writer has recommended for English teacher and
Researcher considering that the students’ ability level in comprehending narrative
text are at “average to good” level, it is suggested that the students must to do
more practice in reading, read any book to improve reading skills, especially in
guessing meaning of vocabulary and finding factual information and main idea of
the text well
