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

Harahap, Nirwansyah (2017) The correlation between social learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension at seventh semester of english department in IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the correlation between social learning strategy and reading comprehension to the seventh semester students of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The problem of this research were students students’ interest of reading is still low, students had difficulties in understanding the text because they did not have strategy in reading, they get the difficult in understand the text, they get difficult to understand the phonetic, they needed a lot of time to understand the text, and they had difficulties to find the points or comprehend the text. The aim of this research was to verify correlation between social learning strategy and reading comprehension to the seventh semester students of English Department in IAIN Padangsidimpuan. This research was designed by quantitative approach correlation research type. The population of this research correlation at seventh semester students of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan, and the sample of the research 37 person from population, taken with random sampling by lottery. To collect the data, researcher used test (multiple choice) for reading comprehension and questionnaire to know students’ social learning strategy. To analyzed the data, the research used ttest. On the result of the research, the researcher showed the description of the data, and it the found that result calculating which was gotten the value of the correlation of product moment r xy between variable x and y was -0.168. Its means the correlation between social learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension are in negative correlation, the correlation is negative correlation in the level of very low correlation. Next, It is seen that ttables tcount is smaller that (tcount= -0.206 < ttable 2.704) in the significance 0.05. Based on the result, it is know that the null hypothesis is accepted and alternative hypothesis is rejected it means that there is not significant correlation between social learning strategy use and reading comprehension narrative text seventh semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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