Misrawati Nasution (2010) STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN SUMMARIZING READING TEXT AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH RAMBAH. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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The purpose of this research was to know the ability of second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah Rambah in summarizing reading text. We know that English has been taught since Elementary School, three years in Junior High School. Those, the second year students of Senior High School have studied English starting from the first year. Summarizing text is one of the teaching reading techniques used by English teacher in SMA Muhammadiyah Rambah, and Reading material is always taught well by the teacher. But, when the teacher asks the students to summarize reading text, many students make incorrect summary. Thus, the writer is interested to do a research dealing with this matter to know the students’ ability in summarizing reading text. The writer formulates the problems of this research into how is the students’ ability of second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah Rambah in summarizing reading text? The subject of this research was the second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah Rambah and the object of this research was ability of summarizing reading text of second year students. The population was the second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah Rambah. There were 113 students in three classes; they were 35 students in IPA class, 40 students in IPS 1, and 38 students IPS 2. The writer took 20% of them. The instruments of this study were test. In analyzing the data, the writer used Scoring Guide of ESL Composition Profile. Then, to find the level of students’ ability in summarizing reading text, the writer used formula as follows: M = ∑ Fx N Notes: M = Mean N = Total number of the students’ score ∑Fx = Total number of score The last, to classify their level in summarizing, the writer used category of scoring that also we also can see in technique of analyzing data. Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that the result of the students’ ability in summarizing reading text is categorized in to enough. The average score of students’ score in summarizing is 65.68 which is located at the category 60-69%.

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