Reading Comprehension Achievement REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

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2.3 Reading Comprehension Achievement

There is no doubt that reading comprehension relates to the students’ achievement in reading the written language. According to Montgomary et al. 2007 “comprehension will not follow exactly the same track for each reader. It is because of the way of comprehending written language is vary from each students, so that the achievement vary from one student to another. ” For instance, the students are given the same text, when the teacher asks them to tell the main idea of the text; the answer could be different among them since every student has their own way in comprehending the text. Furthermore, Snow 2009:7 states that “achievement tests to which these high stakes are attached often reflect reading comprehension ability, even when the specific goal of the test is to assess knowledge in the content areas. ” In knowing the students’ achievement toward students’ reading comprehension ability, the teacher can devise reading comprehension exercise. Grellet 1996:9 points out that “exercise must be meaningful and correspond as often as possible to what one is expected to do with the text. ” Another important point when devising reading comprehension exercises is that the activities should be flexible and varied. In conducting reading comprehension exercise, the text must be suited with the topic in learning process. Thus, the exercise itself leads the students understanding the main topic being discussed. In this research, reading comprehension achievement test deals with reading test which is going to be administered by the researcher to know how the students achieve the objectives of the materials. The objective is the students are able to comprehend the meaning of procedure text, the generic structure of procedure text and comprehend some examples of procedure text. The materials is about procedure texts which measured some indicators, such as; comprehending the words, comprehending the sentences, comprehending the paragraphs, and comprehending the whole text. It is used procedure text because the kind of text being taught in the first semester is procedure text. Meanwhile, the other types of 18 texts such as recount text and hortatory exposition text which the students have to learn in eleventh grade is stated in the second semester.

2.4 Procedure Text