ENGLISH TEXTS READING COMPREHENSION OF GRADE 11 STUDENTS OF SMA NEGERI 4 KUPANG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025

Abstract

This thesis entitled: English Texts Reading Comprehension of Grade Eleventh Students of SMA Negeri 4 Kupang in Academic Year 2024/2025”. Reading comprehension is a process of understanding a text, namely to take the ideas, the information, and then interpret the meaning. It is mental process in which the readers try to understand the meaning in the text by interpreting what have been read in order to find the idea given by the writers. Nunan, defines reading comprehension is the process to get a, to understand, and to catch the content of the reading. It means that reading comprehension is a process of the readers in getting and understanding the meaning of the text. This research used descriptive quantitative method and qualitative method. This research was conducted for one month in SMA Negeri 4 Kupang. The researcher chose class 11/E students as the subject of this research. There were be 210 students as the population which were distributed in 6 classes, and each class consists of 24 students. For the purpose of this study, the sample taken was 10% of the population (210) = 21 students. The instruments used in this research were a test and interview. The test was multiple choice. There were 20 numbers of test items and another instrument was interview. There were 1 out of 21 students got poor scores (0-59) and 12 students got fair scores (60-69). It means 57% of students were not able to comprehend English reading text (failure). Meanwhile, there were 5 students (24)% got good scores (70-79) and 3 students got excellent scores (14%) from 80-100. It means most of students were not able to comprehend English texts.