A Study On The Second Year Students’ability Of Smpn 1 Cerenti In Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This was a descriptive research. The specific objective of this research was to find out the ability of the second year students of SMPN 1 Cerenti in reading comprehension. The research was conducted in the academic year of 2012 / 2013 at SMPN 1 Cerenti. It is located on Jalan Raya Cerenti. The data of this research was collected from March to April 2013. In this study, the researcher took the sample by using cluster sampling. Before the test was administered to the students, the researcher did a try out to the 30 students of VIII5 class to find out the validity and reliability of the test. After validating the instrument, the real test was administered to the students. The subjects of this research were 30 students of class VIII5. After collecting the data, the researcher analyzed the result to find out the ability of the second year students of SMPN 1 Cerenti in reading comprehension. The ability of the students was analyzed trough five components: finding main ideas, finding factual information, finding the meaning of vocabulary in context, identifying references, and identifying inferences.