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A. Introduction
Reading is one of the most
important skill that should be mastered by
the students in learning English. Reading
is also a vital academic skill. You need to
read text books, read questions on exam,
read sources to write research papers. By
reading,
the
information,
students
especially
get
about
much
the
can
read
the
newspaper,
word
knowledge
influence
or
comprehension.
or
vocabulary
increase
the
can
learners
According
to
Brassell
and
much
more
than
readers
are
text,
narrative
text,
descriptive
types).
In addition, Carlisle (2007:78 )
says that breadth and depth of word
knowledge is a key factor in reading
comprehension.
Therefore,
students
questions,
especially
hortatory
students
ability
in
comprehending
B. Research Method
ability
grade
students
ability
in
exposition
the
third grade
third grade
arguments
exposition
of
text
texts
at
Gay
SMA
hortatory
Negeri
(1987:102),
1
the
2. To find out
comprehending
Kayutanam.
in
hortatory
at
SMAN
The
population
of
this
Kayutanam.
3. To find out
the
third grade
the
population.
According
to
Gay
exposition
text
at
SMAN
Kayutanam.
4. To find out the third grade students
ability
in
features
exposition
text
Kayutanam.
of
at
The
individuals
selected
the
hortatory
comprehending
language
selected.
SMAN
The
instrument
used
in
this
Spearman
exposition text.
2009:93).
Brown
Formula
correlation
(Arikunto,
of
coefficient
based
.81 1.00
.61 .80
= high correlation
.41 .60
= moderate
.21 .40
= low correlation
.00 .20
on
validity of
this
test,
researcher
that
and
language
features
of
hortatory
exposition text.
the
reliability
was
very
high
data.
using
(Arikunto, 2012:298):
researcher
explained
the
following
formula
P = x 100 %
3. The
the
collected
the
text
at
SMAN
Kayutanam.
C. Findings and Discussion
Findings
answer.
procedures:
Standar Deviatiion.
2. The
researcher
the
or
low
classified
ability by using
following
categories
the
(Arikunto,
In measuring the students ability in
2012:299).
the
3. The
researcher
calculated
score
was
8.
Then
the
researcher
The
the
students
scores.
The
1.05.
score
researcher
was
11.
Then
the
the
students
scores.
The
recommendation
of
hortatory
students
the
ability
in
Discussion
In general, the data showed that the
ability of the students in comprehending
hortatory
exposition
text
(thesis,
ability,
61.36%
in
in
comprehending
the
the
language
features
of
hortatory
exposition text.
exposition
because
students
the
lack
of
arguments
of
texts
were
distributed
on
hortatory
conjunction.
Conclusions
Having known the result of data
analysis, the researcher concludes that the
ability of the third grade students at
SMAN 1 Kayutanam in comprehending
hortatory exposition text was moderate. In
detail, the researcher could say that:
1. The
students
comprehending
ability
the
thesis
hortatory exposition
texts
in
of
was
students
ability
in
texts
was
students
ability
comprehending
recommendation
in
the
of
hortatory
Suggestions
Based on the conclusion above, the
researcher
proposes
the
following
conduct
other
researches.
The
E. References
Arikunto,
students
comprehending
ability
the
in
language
S.
(2009).
Dasar-Dasar
Arikunto,
S.
(2012).
Dasar-Dasar
Implications
for
York:
Merril
Publishing
Company
Klingner, Janette K., Vaughn, Sharon., and
Boardman, Alison. (2007). Teaching
Reading Comprehension to Students
with Learning Difficulties. New
York: The Guildford Press