Diayatul Khoiriyah (14111330137) Exploring The Levels Of Comprehension
In The Reading Passages In Some Selected Reading Textbooks For Junior
High School
This study was intended to cover the types of text and levels of comprehension in
the some selected reading textbooks for junior high school. The selected reading
textbooks are Further Stories for Reading Comprehension A and Reading
Comprehension 4. The investigation was centered on the purpose of reading by
Grabe and Stoller (2002), Levels of Comprehension by Westwood (2001) and
typology text by Ferencik (2004). And then, this investigation positioned into
qualitative research using document analysis.
The result shows the selected reading textbooks were has different type’s
texts and also levels comprehension. 1) There are six types of texts; Narrative
text, recount text, report text, procedure text, spoof text and then poem. 2) There
are levels of comprehension in the some selected reading textbooks which
analyzed; Literal, Interpretative, Applied and Appreciate. Then, the most numbers
of levels of comprehension is literal and interpretative level and some of them
included into applied and appreciate level.
Keyword: Reading Comprehension, Typology Text and Levels of Comprehension
