Students' Ability in Understanding Advertisement Text in Improving Reading Skill at Senior High School

ABSTRACT

In reading skill has several texts. The researcher focused on the part of reading text which is advertisement text. Researcher has chosen advertisement text because of advertisement text is contextual and learners are easily to find this type of text in their environment. Researcher found there is the problem with students cannot understand about advertisement text, but actually this text commonly finds in their daily life. The researcher wanted to know whether by using advertisement text can improve their reading skill and to what extent they can improve their understanding on advertisement text. The respondent of this research was the second year students of SMAN 12 Banda Aceh and the English teacher recommended class XI IPA 2 and consist of 25 students. This research was conducted by using quantitative design and the instrument of this research is test and questionnaire. The result of this study is the pre-test score was 36,7 and the post-test score was 70, it can be concluded the mean score post-test was higher than pre-test. Then, the students class XI IPA 2 gave positive responses toward advertisement text, it is proven by the students’ answer of questionnaire. It can be seen in the tables of questionnaire analysis that most of them understood about advertisement text after the researcher gave the treatment for them.