Mastery of Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA N 1 Batangan Juwana Pati in the Academic Year 2008/2009.

Among four skills, reading skill is very important because through reading, we can get much information. The students get information in various subject areas and enlargement of experiences through literature. There are many kinds of text taught for the Senior high school students. One of them is narrative text. To understand narrative text, we should have good reading skill. Meanwhile the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Batangan Juwana Pati still have difficulties of understanding the reading especially reading comprehension of narrative. Based on the reason above, the writer is interested to carry on research entitled “The Mastery of Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMA N 1 Batangan Juwana Pati in the Academic Year 2008/2009” The purposes of the research is to know the students mastery of reading comprehension of narrative text of the Eleventh Grade students of SMA N 1 Batangan Juwana Pati in academic year 2008/2009 This research is quantitative descriptive research. The population of the research is eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Batangan Juwana Pati in the academic year 2008/2009. By using random sampling technique, the sample of this research is 36 students from six class of eleventh grade. The instrument of the research was a multiple choice test given to the eleventh grade students of SMA N 1 Batangan Juwana Pati in the academic year 2008/2009 The result of this research shows that the mean of mastery of reading narrative text of the eleventh year students of SMA N 1 Batangan Juwana Pati in the academic year 2008/2009 is 21.6, median is 18.43, mode is 18.65 and the standard deviation is 3.96. It means the mastery of reading narrative text of the eleventh year students of SMA N 1 Batangan Juwana Pati in the academic year 2008/2009 is categorized as good. Considering the process and the results of this research, the writer suggests that (i) Students must practice a lot to read English narrative text. They must also ask their teacher when they got difficulties to understanding the text, so that they know and understand the context of the narrative text well then they are able to retell the story and perform in front-of the classroom (ii) the teacher must choose an interesting narrative text as a material. So that the students would be more active and enjoy in learning English