AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS IN UNDERSTANDING NARATIVE TEXTS IN SMP N 7 MEDAN

Abstract

This study was conducted to describe students' ability in understanding
narrative text and the factors that influence it. The purpose of this study is to
analyze students' ability to understand narrative text and the factors that
influence it. This research method used descriptive qualitative method. This
research was conducted at SMP N 7 Medan. The subjects of this study were 30
students of class IX-6. This research used question answering test and interview
test instruments. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the average
comprehension ability of narrative text was 82.33 (high ability), then from the
data it was also found that the factor that most influenced students' reading
comprehension ability at SMP N 7 Medan was the word meaning factor with a
percentage of 29.54% out of 100%, followed by vocabulary 27.27%, grammar
25% and linguistic factors 18.18%. The main cause is the limited vocabulary
owned by the students.
Keywords: Reading, Narrative text, influencing factors, Ability Analysis