The correlation between compensation learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension at seventh semester of english department in IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Siregar, Irwan Shaleh (2017) The correlation between compensation learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension at seventh semester of english department in IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to know the correlation between compensation learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension at seventh semester of English department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research are students feel difficult to express varied of words, the students are afraid to spell words correctly, the students are difficult in constructing a good sentence with appropriate word. Further, when the students read a print particularly the textbook, they feel difficult to comprehend it. This research is designed by quantitative approach and correlation research type. Population of the research are the seventh semester students of English Department in IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Then, the sample are 37 from population. It is taken by using random sampling. In collecting the data, researcher used questionnaire for students’ compensation learning strategy and test (multiple choice) for reading comprehension. To analyze the data, the researcher uses tcount. Result of the research shows rxy = -0.156. By looking to the index of product moment correlation, the correlation between students’ compensation learning strategies and reading comprehension is very low. The result also shows that the correlation between variable X and Y is a negative correlation. Then, in one side the calculation of tcount, produce a result tcount = -0.934, dk = N-2 = 37-2 = 35, and at real α = 0.05. The other side ttable = 2.704. Because of tcount is smaller than ttable (-0.934 < 2.704). So, there is no significant correlation between compensation learning strategy and students reading comprehension. Then, it means Ha is rejected and Ho is accepted.

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