school in Banyuwangi, there is no research about a descriptive research on the student s’
reading comprehension achievement of recount texts at the school. In addition, the teacher informed that he has taught recount texts in teaching reading. According to him, it is an
interesting type of text for the students because they can recall their experiences in the past so they felt excited to read the recount text based on their personal experience. The teacher
told the researcher that he has already taught recount texts to the students and gave the English scores to the researcher for additional information.
The teacher also explained that in teaching reading, he used recount and descriptive texts. He usually applied Lecturing and Question-Answer methods in teaching reading. He
used two English text books for grade VIII. The teacher gave the reading task to the students in the form of multiple choices, true false and answering the questions related to
the text. He admitted that in evaluating the students ’ work, he has never analyzed the
results based on the reading indicators. Based on the reason above, the researcher will conduct a descriptive study to know how the eighth grade students
’ ability in reading recount text. The research is entitle
d “A Descriptive Study on the Eighth Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement of Recount Texts at SMPN 1 Banyuwangi
” was conducted.
1.2 The Problems of the Research
Based on the background of the research as described above, the problems of the research are divided into general and specific problems.
1.2.1 General Problem
a. How is the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement of
Recount Texts of the students of SMPN 1 Banyuwangi? 1.2.2 Specific Problem
a. How is the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement in
finding word meaning of Recount Text; b.
How is the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement in finding sentence meaning of Recount Text;
c. How is the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement in
finding paragraph meaning of Recount Text; d.
How is the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement in finding whole text meaning of Recount Text;
1.3 The Objectives of the Research
Based on the research problem, the general and specific objectives of the research are as follows:
1.3.1 General Objective
The objective of this research is to describe the eighth grade students’ reading
comprehension achievement of Recount Text at SMPN 1 Banyuwangi in the 20142015 academic year.
1.3.2 Specific Objectives
The specific objectives of this research are: a.
to describe the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement in finding word meaning of Recount Text;
b. to describe the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement in
finding sentence meaning of Recount Text; c.
to describe the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement in finding paragraph meaning of Recount Text;
d. to describe the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement in
finding whole texts meaning of Recount Text.
1.4 The Significance of the Research
The results of this research are expected to give some benefits for the English teacher and the future researchers.
1.4.1 The English Teacher It is expected that the results of this research can be used by the English
teacher to help his students comprehend the recount text because the students’
reading comprehension achievement is measured based on the reading indicators. Thus, by knowing the students’ achievement, the teacher will know how to help
students who still obtain below the targeted score. 1.4.2
Future Researchers The results of this research can be used by future researchers as a reference
and information to conduct a further research with the same topic but different genres, research design or level of the students. For example, they can do an
experimental research to measure the effect of a certain technique on students reading comprehension, or a classroom action research to improve students
’ reading comprehension achievement.
1.5 Limitation of the Research
