Rahmawati Unbara
PGRI University, Palembang

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THE CORRELATION AMONG READING ATTITUDE, THE USE OF INTERNET AND READING COMPREHENSION Rahmawati Unbara; Machdalena Vianty; Rita Inderawati
The Journal of English Literacy Education: The Teaching and Learning of English as A Foreign Language Vol. 2 No. 2 (2015): The Journal of English Literacy Education: The Teaching and Learning of English
Publisher : ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM, FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION, UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA

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The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation among reading attitude, the use of internet and reading comprehension of English Study Program Students of PGRI University. Questionnaires and a test were administered to the sample (N=152). Pearson product-moment correlation was used to analyse the data. The result showed a significant correlation between n (r=.562), the also revealed the correlation between the aspects of reading attitude and reading comprehension: prevailing feelings about reading (r=.553), action readiness for reading (r =.536) and evaluative beliefs about reading (r = .442). Furthermore, to reading comprehension, regression analysis discovered that reading attitude contributed 31.5%, two aspects of reading attitude (prevailling feelings about reading and action readiness for reading) contributed 33.7% and the use of internet contributed 4%.