An Analysis of The Understanding of The News Titles Interpretation to The News Context in The Jakarta Post

This research focuses on an analysis of the understanding of the news titles interpretation of The Jakarta Post. The research is aimed to find out: 1) some interpretations found in the news titles of The Jakarta Post, 2) the causes that makes news titles of The Jakarta Post having more than one interpretation, 3) the meanings conveyed in the news titles regarding to the news context. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The source of data of the research is The Jakarta Post published in 2008-2011. This research applies purposive sampling technique. Through the data, there is questionnaire distributed to the students to know students interpretation. The research concluded that: 1) there are two kinds of ambiguity creating misunderstanding found in The Jakarta Post: grammatical and lexical ambiguity. 2) The students’ ability in understanding the meaning of the news title is good enough. Most of the students got score more than 50 of the correct answer. Only 6,6% of the students who get the lowest score, that is 50