The correlation between reading interest and reading comprehension of The Tenth Grade Students MAN Padang Lawas Utara

Harahap, Jerni Mayanti (2022) The correlation between reading interest and reading comprehension of The Tenth Grade Students MAN Padang Lawas Utara. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to examine the correlation between reading interest and reading comprehension of the tenth grade students MAN Padang Lawas Utara in the academic year 2021-2022. Objects of this research are reading interest and reading comprehension. It is firstly proven by the writer through her preliminary research before doing the research which shows the symptoms as explained as follow: some of the students were difficult to understand a text in their English textbook due to lack of vocabulary. They were lazy to learn English and have little interest in reading textbook. Finally the students don’t catch the lesson well. There were three purposes of this research. The first to describe the reading interest of the tenth grade students MAN Padang Lawas Utara. The second to describe the ability of the tenth grade students MAN Padang Lawas Utara in reading comprehension. The last to examine whether there is a significant correlation between reading interest and reading comprehension of the tenth grade students MAN Padang Lawas Utara. The design of this research was a quantitative research with correlational study. The population of the research was all of the students at grade eight with 100 students. By using simple random sampling technique, there were 50 students implicated as samples in this research. The data were obtained by using two instruments which were questionnaire for reading interest and test for reading comprehension. rxy Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to analyze the data. From the result of the data analysis, it was found that the r-count was (0.355) higher than r-table (0.279) the result showed that there was a correlation between students’ reading interest and students’ reading comprehension in weak category and t-count was (2.630) higher than significance value t-table (2.021) it means reading interest had a siginifant correlation to reading comprehension of the tenth grade students MAN Padang Lawas Utara.

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