accurately. The
comprehension covered
word comprehension,
sentence comprehension, paragraph comprehension, and text comprehension. Reading
comprehension of the recount text means extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible. Their reading comprehension achievement was represented
by their scores of reading comprehension test. The test items consisted of word comprehension,
sentence comprehension,
paragraph comprehension,
text comprehension. The term achievement equals to ability because the researcher will
not teach the recount text to the students only to test.
3.2.3 Recount Text
A recount text is a text which consists of three generic structures, namely orientation, series of events, and re-orientation. The language features of a recount
text are personal participant, chronological connection, linking verbs, action verbs, using simple past tense. This text tells about the writer
’s experience in the past that will entertain or inform the readers, yet, can be both. The recount texts, in this
research, were be taken from the English text books and from the Internet.
3.3 Research Area Determination Method
In this research, purposive method was applied to determine the research area, that was SMPN 1 Banyuwangi. Fraenkel and Wallen 2006:100 state that purposive
method is a method for specific purpose of the research. This school is chosen based of some considerations:
1. Reading comprehension of recount texts has been taught to the eighth grade
students at SMPN 1 Banyuwangi in the first and the second semester. 2.
The researcher was given the permission by the Headmaster to conduct this research. So, the data could obtained from this school.
3. There was no research related to this research topic done at the school that is a
descriptive research on the students’ reading comprehension achievement of
the recount texts.
3.4 Respondent Determination Method
McMillan 1992:69 states that respondents are individuals who participate in a research or people from whom the data are collected. Respondent determination
method is used to determine the individual who can be representative as data resources. In this research, the researcher uses cluster random sampling to determine
the respondents because all the eighth grade classes have similar category of mean score that are 31 to 33. According to Sulthon, 2010:73 Cluster random sampling can
be used in taking the research respondents if there will be groups or classes which have their own characteristics.
The population of this research was the eighth grade students in SMPN 1 Banyuwangi in the 20142015 academic year consisting of 7 classes. The total
number of the eighth grade students in SMPN 1 Banyuwangi was 228 students. Each class has about 32 to 33 students. The number of students in each class is presented in
the following table: Table 3.1 The Total Number of grade VIII students of
SMPN 1 Banyuwangi in the 20142015 Academic Year No
Class Students
1 VIII A
33 2
VIII B 33
3 VIII C
32 4
VIII D 32
5 VIII E
33
6 VIII F
32 7
VIII G 33
Total 228
Source: SMPN 1 Banyuwangi The researcher used cluster random sampling by doing lottery to take the
respondents Franken and Wallen:2000. The researcher used the lottery to determine
which class taken as the respondents of the research because the population was already homogenous
based on the students’ English midterm scores.
3.5 Data Collection Methods
