Orvin Ariani Tanono Pengarang DEWI I N BILI BORA Dosen Pembimbing 2 SOLEMAN DAPA TAKA Dosen Pembimbing 1 Elisna Huan Ketua Penguji Dewi I N Bili Bora Penguji 2 Drs. Soleman Dapa Taka, MA Penguji 1

This research is entitled A Study on the Ability of Reading Comprehension on Narrative Text by seventh Grade Students of SMPN 1 Soe in academic Year 2021/2022. This research was conducted to answer the following questions: (1) To what extent are seventh grades students of SMP 1 Soe able to comprehend narrative texts in academic year 2021/2022 and (2) What kind of problems are encountered by students. The aims of this research are (1) The writer expects to know the level of abilities of seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Soe in comprehending narrative text and (2) The writer hopes to solve problems encountered by seventh grade students of SMPN1 Soe in comprehending narrative text. This research used quantitative method and the main instrument is a test. The test consist of 10 questions. The subject of this research were the seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Soe in academic year 2021/2022 in language program with total are 33 students. After the students work were collected, the writer then found out problems, and calculate the rank of errors done by students. The result shows that there are the dominant groups middle’and’high’with(48,48%) and (45,45%) recpectively. The rest is a very small percentage which are classified inti ‘ low’ (6,06%). The students ability level overall shows that there are 15 students (45,45%)who get high score. The result of this study show that the ability of reading comprehension on narrative text by seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Soe in academic year 2021/2022 is in the middle level of ability. The diffculties of students in comprehension narrative text are: They have less interest to follow English class particularly to learn narrative texts. This is due to the fact that many narrative texts are made of long and imaginative texts which make them boring. Another reason is their poor reading skill that put them in difficulty to understand the text. According to them, English is a difficult subject. From the problems encountered by the students, because less learning and English practicing in their daily lives. Several solutions to solve the students problem namely: (1) Encauraging students to read a lot to enrich their vocabulary. (2) Stimulating students practicipation and interest in learning English by involving games, pictures, videos, or songs related to the material. (3) Involving students vocabularies, grammar and pronouncation through reading. (4) giving motivation to students not the give up learning English.