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  • ABSTRACT The study is aimed at measuring the correlation between synonym context clue and reading comprehension English study program students of IAIN Palangka Raya. The design of the study was correlational design; the type of the study was quantitative approach to find out the problem of the study. The problem of the study was “Is there any correlation between synonym context clue and reading comprehension at third semester students of English study program students of IAIN Palangka Raya?”. In this study, the writer used correlation design, where the writer used this design to correlate two variables that were synonym context clue (Variable X) and reading comprehension (Variable Y). The sample of this study wasthe third semester students of English study programat IAIN Palangka Raya and the number total was 15 students. In collecting the data, the writer used tests; synonym context clue test and reading comprehension test. The writer analyzed the data using Pearson Product Moment Correlation with manual calculation and SPSS 16 program to test the hypothesis. The result of the analysis using manual calculation was 0.26422307and rtable at 5% and 1% significant level were 0.5139 and 0.6411 or 0.5139>0.26422307 it meant that the rvalue<rtable. The result of calculation using SPSS 16 program found that rvalue(0.264) was Lower than rtableat 5% and 1% significant level or 0.5139>0.264<0.6411 It could be concluded that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and (Ho) was rejected. The result of calculation using SPSS 16 Program found that there was a poor correlation between students’ synonym context clue and reading comprehension English study program students of IAIN Palangka Raya. The result of calculation of contribution between synonym context clue and reading comprehension showed that the synonym context clue (Variable X) gave about 69.81383 %contribution to the reading comprehension (Variable Y) of the sample class and 30.18617 % was influenced by other aspects.Based on the research findings, it is shown that there is a significant correlation in poor level of correlation between synonym context clue and reading comprehension English study program students of IAIN Palangka Raya.