THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING STRATEGIES AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION AT ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH CILEGON

R. Alpha Amirrachman, Ph.D. as the first advisor and Delsa Miranty, M.Pd. as the second advisor.

The objective of this research was to find out the correlation of students reading strategies and their reading comprehension at eleventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Cilegon. The researcher used quantitative research by applying correlational research design for conducting the research. The population of this research was the eleventh grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah Cilegon. The sample of this research was chosen based on convenience sampling. The total of population was 30, in this case researcher took all of the population to be a sample. Firstly, the researcher gave a reading comprehension test to students. Then, the researcher gave reading strategies questionairre. The calculation showed the result of pearson product moment calculation was 0,934 which higher than 0,361 of 0.05 (5%) as a significance value. It means the alternative hypothesis was accepted. From those findings Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected, it can be concluded that there was an correlation between reading strategies and reading comprehension at the eleventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah Cilegon.

Keyword: Correlation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies

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