@thesis{thesis,
		author={TRI  WULANDARI},
		title ={STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ON NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST SEMESTER STUDENTS OFENGLISH DEPARTMENT 
OF UMMATIN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020},
		year={2020},
		url={http://repository.ummat.ac.id/1106/},
		abstract={understand and apply information contained in written material. It means that the students should be able to know the information in narrative text. Therefore, the aims of this research were to diagnose and analyze the students’ reading comprehension ability on narrative text at the first-semester student of English Department of UMMAT. The method of this research was descriptive method.The results of this research are ; 1) Based on the result of test, the students’ ability in comprehending narrative text was in various categories; Only 1 (5%) student got excellent category, 6 (25%) students got good category, there were 8 (33%) students got fair category, 5 (21%) students got poor category and 4 (16%) students got very poor category. Based on the passing grade of Intensive reading subject is 70 (B), it means only 30 % (7 students) got ≥ 70 and 70% (17 students) got < 70. 2) Based on students’ response of questionnaire, the students’ knowledge about the theory of narrative text was calculated as follows; 62.5% (15) students understood about definition of narrative text, 37.5% (9) students knew about generic structure of narrative, 20.83% (5) students understood about the communicative purpose of narrative text, 45.83% (11) students comprehended the generic structure of narrative text and 4.17% (1) student knew the characteristics of narrative text.

Key words: Reading Comprehension, Narrative Text}
		}