Abstract :
This study is entitle ? A Study On Reading Comprehension Ability Of The Second year Students Of SMAN 2 Kupang in The School Year 2016/2017 ? This Study was conducted in order to answer the Question about the text that they read or not?
(2) what is their ability level ?While the objectives of the study are as follows (1) to find out whether or not the second years students ? Of SMAN 2 Kupang able to answer the Question comprehend about the text that they have read.
(2) to find out the students? ability level comprehend. To analyze the data of this study, the writer applied the nomative survey method. in addition, in gathering the data, the writer analyze the data based on the answer sheet. At the end writer gave the test to the class as a tool to measure their comprehension of teaching material. Based on the data analysis, the result of the test usually increase the students in answering the question it shows that the students of SMAN 2 Kupang are able to understand the text they were read and their level ability is Average. Although as a class the students are able to undestand the text, the teacher is also expected to pay attention to students? grammar specially tenses because based on the answe sheet the writer found some grammatical errors suggestion for futher study?