Students’ understanding on idiom at second grade of SMAN 13 Bandar Lampung

This research was the replication research from Li and Lewis (2019) entitled “Understanding metaphor; problem for Chinese Readers”. This research aims to know students’ understanding on idiom by analyzing whether idioms affect sentence comprehension. The subjects were students in grade XI of SMAN 13 Bandar Lampung. The researcher took one class as the sample of 25 students randomly. This research was analyzed using descriptive statistic method. In collecting the data, the researcher used a test in the form of Westlife songs and task completing. The result showed that the students understanding in both literal meaning and idiom were still low, their average score was under 60. So, it is suggested to the teacher to be creative and give more guidance in teaching idiomatic material, since we know that idiomatic understanding is one of important knowledge, and for the students also have to upgrade their idioms understanding by practicing and using them in daily conversation.