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.
