THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING INTEREST AND READING COMPREHENSION OF THE NINTH GRADE STUDENTS OF PUBLIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS WITH “A” ACCREDITATION IN PALEMBANG
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- The purposes of this study were to find out whether or not there is a significant correlation between reading interest and reading comprehension, and whether or not there is a significant contribution of reading interest to reading comprehension achievement of students of public junior high school with “A” accreditation in Palembang. The participants of this study were 378 students of public junior high school with “A” accreditation in Palembang which were randomly selected by using slovin formula to figure out an appropriate sample size from a population. Reading interest questionnaire and reading comprehension test were used to collect the data. The data in this study were analyzed using correlation analysis and regression analysis in SPSS version 24. The results of the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient showed that there was a weak significant correlation between reading interest and reading comprehension with r-obtained was higher than r-table (0.304> 0.101 ) at the 0.05 level (two-tailed), and the p-value was lower than 0.05 (0.000 <0.05). Moreover, regression analysis revealed reading interest contributed 10.5% to reading comprehension. It can be concluded that once the reading interest is increased, the reading comprehension is also increased.