ANALYSIS OF READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT AT TENTH GRADE STUDENTS

MERRY YOHANA SINAGA, DELFI SURIANI SITORUS (2022) ANALYSIS OF READING COMPREHENSION IN NARRATIVE TEXT AT TENTH GRADE STUDENTS , SKRIPSI, UNIVERSITAS PRIMA INDONESIA

ABSTRAK

Language is a communication tool used to talk to each other, language can also be used to describe or express someone's feelings. As we know, language has 4 skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each skill has its own meaning, but the researcher will discuss reading skills which are the process of thinking and obtaining information from a reading text, so that they can derive meaning from the reading text. Therefore, it is very important to learn reading skills in order to obtain important points or reading information from those who do not know to know. This study aims to analyze how many students can and are able to understand the contents of narrative texts. With this, the researcher selected the tenth graders at the Budi Murni Catholic Private High School 2 to be used as samples. This study uses a quantitative approach, the motive is to examine certain samples, with data collection techniques in the form of distributing questionnaires in the form of a Likert scale, then calculating the results of the answer instruments obtained by each student, followed by coding the answer instruments, after which the values are sought: mean, media, and mode, then the reliability test and validity test were carried out with the aim of proving the validity of the student's answer instrument. So it can be concluded based on the results of the analysis obtained by each learning target, 23 respondents found it easier to understand narrative texts after seeing and/or hearing stories with excessive frequency, there were 5 students who were declared fluent. In retelling the narrative text that has been read, 7 students are able to understand the lesson other than with the help of fingers, pens, or others, 7 students are able and as many as 6 respondents are not in a position to understand the narrative text, even though there are a few sentences left in the text.

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