The Correlation between Students’ Reading Interest and Their Reading Comprehension at the Second Year of SMAN 2 Tambang Kampar Regency

Main Author: Fatmawati Nasution, -
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: ind
Terbitan: , 2019
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Online Access: http://repository.uin-suska.ac.id/22112/1/CHAPTER%20IV.pdf
http://repository.uin-suska.ac.id/22112/2/THESIS%20FATMAWATI%20NASUTION.pdf
http://repository.uin-suska.ac.id/22112/
Daftar Isi:
  • This research was conducted because some problems were faced by students in reading, especially in reading interest and reading comprehension of narrative text. The problems were: most of the students are lazy to read the text, most of them feel bored when studied English especially in reading the text, most of them still have less interest in reading text, and most of them have low ability in reading comprehension. The objective of this research was to investigate the relationship between students’ reading interest and their reading comprehension of narrative text at second year of SMAN 2 Tambang. This research was a quantitative research. The population of this research was all of the students at second year. The total number of population was 283 students. Random sampling technique was used to taken the sample and the total sample was 30 students. The instruments were questionnaire and test. Person product moment correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data. The results of this research showed that the coefficient correlation was 0.109 and the p-value was (0.565) which was greater than 0.05 (0.565 > 0.05). It means that Ho is accepted and Ha is rejected. Based on the result of the research it could be concluded that there was no statistically significant correlation between students’ reading interest and their reading comprehension at second year of SMAN 2 Tambang Kampar regency. Keywords: Reading Interest, Reading Comprehension, Narrative text