Students’ Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text

Walidah Sofyan Siregar (Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia)
Eka Sustri Harida (Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia)

Abstract


 This research is discussing about the students’ reading comprehension of the second year MTs.Muhammadiyah 22 Padangsidimpuan. This research employed descriptive quantitative  research. Based on the result of the research, researcher got the description of the data was found that mean score was 56.76. It means that the students’ reading comprehension of the second year MTs.Muhammadiyah 22 Padangsidimpuan was categorized into enough ability. Then, from the result of the hypothesis testing, the researcher found that Zcount =-3.57Ztable 0.3264. It means the hypothesis was rejected. Thus, the result of mean scores the students’ ability in enough ability and actually it should be accepted hypothesis, but based on the result of that score it is rejected. So, maybe there is a mistake in instrument or in calculation.

Keywords


Reading Comprehension; DescriptiveText; Students’ Ability; Generic Structures; Language Features

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24952/ee.v9i01.4104

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