THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE TENTH-GRADE OF SMAN 5 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

Abstract

This research are to analyze students’ ability of identifying five aspects of narrative text and to analyze difficulties of the students in identifying the content of narrative text. It belongs to qualitative research. The researchers used the results of test about narrative text done by tenth-grade students of SMAN 5 Purworejo on 29th March 2021 as the data source. The unit of analysis in this research were students’ abilities in comprehending purpose, generic structure, grammatical feature, detail information, and vocabulary of narrative text. In collecting the data, the researcher prepared documents, accessed permission to SMAN 5 Purworejo to give the document that was reading comprehension test of narrative text to the students, and gave test of reading narrative text. In analyzing the data, the researcher scored students’ comprehension, calculating them individually, and classified them based on their score into categories. In conclusion, the mean score of comprehending the purpose of the text is 78.3; comprehending generic structure is 81.7; grammatical feature is 64.4; detail information is 69.4; and, vocabulary is 68.9.