The Students’ Reading Comprehension of the Second Year MTS. Muhammadiyah 22 Padangsidimpuan

Abstract

This research is talking about the students’ reading comprehension of the second year MTs.Muhammadiyah 22 Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research students were seldom to do reading activity, the students are lack of vocabulary and motivation in reading, seldom to practice or repeat at home, and lack of attention about the important of reading, because of the problems make them still confused to determine the main idea from the written. The purpose of this research was to know the students’ understanding about descriptive text of the second year MTs.Muhammadiyah 22 Padangsidimpuan. This research employed descriptive quantitative  research. The population of this research is grade VIII MTs.Muhammadiyah 22 Padangsidimpuan. The total of population was one class. Then, the sample of the research was all the population at grade VIII. It was taken total sampling. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ reading comprehension ability. To analysis the data, the researcher used mean scores or the average scores. After the researcher gets the data, it would enter in test hypothesis with Z-test. The result of the research showed that the mean score was 56.76. It means that the students’ ability to comprehend descriptive text 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 Z_{count =}-3.57Z_table 0.3264. It means the hypothesis was rejected.Thus, the result of mean score 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.