The title of this research is ”STUDENTS’ ABILITY FOR ENGLISH READING
COPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR OF NATURAL SCIENCE PROGRAM OF
MAN 1 PEKANBARU”. Subject of this study is second year student of natural sciences
program MAN 1 PEKANBARU, object of this research is students’ ability in reading
comprehension.
In this study the writer was formulate the objectives of this research as follow:
a. To Know how is the students’ ability in reading comprehension at the second year of
natural science program of MAN 1 PEKANBARU.
b. To Find out what factor influencing the students’ ability for english reading
comprehension at the second year of natural sciences program of MAN 1
PEKANBARU.
In order to get data of this research, the research use to of research instruments they are
test and questionnaires. After the data obtained, then the written analyze the data by using
the formula as follow:
M =
Mx
N
FX
∑
X100
N
FX
=
To categorize the level of students’ ability in reading comprehension, the writer
categorize as follow: Poor, Fair, Fairly good, Good And Excellent.
Base on the data analysis, the writer can make conclusion that the students’ ability in
reading comprehension at the second year of natural sciences program of man 1
pekanbaru is categorized into poor level whit average score is 55, 37
