The ability of students’ at grade VIII-1 SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan in reading comprehension of descriptive text

Hsb, Nurhapsi Dayani (2020) The ability of students’ at grade VIII-1 SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan in reading comprehension of descriptive text. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focuses of students‘ ability in reading descriptive text at grade VIII SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. There are some problems of the students in this research are: 1) The students‘difficult in reading descriptive text. They don‘t know how to reading descriptive text well generally.2)The students difficult to reading descriptive text if their teachers order them to reading a descriptive text. 3) The students could reading a descriptive text, but not with right pronounciation, they had difficulty reading text in English. The formulates the problem on specific question as follow: ―How is the ability of the students of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan at grade VIII in reading descriptive text‖ and then the objectives in this research to find out the significance ability in reading descriptive text at grade VIII students of SMP N 5Padangsdimpuan. The method of this research was designed by quantitative descriptive research. The population of this research at VIII at grade students SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan which the total 246 students. This research used VIII-I as the sample that consist of 31 students. To collect the data researcher used test, the test was multiple choice test. Tthen, the research analyzed the data, use mean score to find out students‘ reading ability and research used Z-test formula to find the hypothesis testing and to know whether the hypothesis is good criteria. Based on the data it found that students ability in descriptive text at grade VIII students of SMP N 5Padangsidimpuan70.4 mean score and good category. From the hypothesis testing the researcher found that the hypothesis good criteria. It can be proved from Z count = 15 Ztable = 3.26 by level of significant 0.05 or 5%. So, from the result the researcher concludes that the hypothesis was accepted. Therefore, students‘ ability in reading descriptive text at grade VIII students of SMP N 5Padangsidimpuanare good category is accepted.

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