The correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension of the grade X students SMA S Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan

Gultom, Desti Amelisa (2018) The correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension of the grade X students SMA S Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension of the grade X students SMA S Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan. There were some problems of the students in this research: 1) Students have lack vocabulary. So, it makes students to have difficulties in comprehending and answering the text, 2) They have low motivation toward learning English, especially motivation in reading comprehension, 3) They have difficulties in grammar. So, it makes students to confuse on comprehending the structure of sentence from the text. The aim of this research was to verify the correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension of the grade X students SMA S Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan. The kind of this research was quantitative research with correlation method. The population of this research was the grade X students SMA S Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan which the total was 240 students from the eight classes. Then, the sample of this research was 48 students from population that chosen by using simple random sampling. The researcher used questionnaire to know students’ reading motivation and test to know students’ reading comprehension on collecting the data. The researcher used the product moment and ttest formula to analyze the data. At the result of this research, the researcher found mean score of students’ reading motivation was 93 and mean score of students’ reading comprehension was 65.66. Beside, the score of rcount was 0.474 and rtable on taraf significant 5% was 0.368. So, rcount was higher than rtable (0.474>0.368). Then, the score of tcount was 3.692 and ttable on taraf significant 1 % was 2.09. So, tcount was higher than ttable (3.692>2.09). It meant the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. The researcher concluded that there was a significant correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension of the grade X students SMA S Nurul ‘Ilmi Padangsidimpuan in enough category.

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