JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy)
Vol 3, No 2 (2019)

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING STRATEGIES AND READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SIXTH SEMESTER IN ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF BENGKULU UNIVERSITY

Nur Olivia Siregar (English Education Study Program Department of Language and Art University of Bengkulu)
Rudi Afriazi (English Education Study Program Department of Language and Art University of Bengkulu)
Arasuli Arasuli (English Education Study Program Department of Language and Art University of Bengkulu)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Sep 2019

Abstract

This research is aimed at identifying student’s reading strategies used and students’s reading comprehension achievement. The research would like to find out whether or not there is any significant correlation between reading strategies and reading comprehension achievement at the sixth-semester students of English Education Study Program at Universitas BengkuluAcademic Year 2018/2019. The research was designed as a quantitative correlation method, the subject were 78 students and the instrument used for collecting the data were reading strategies questionnaire and reading test. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS 23. The result of this research revealed that there is a significant correlation between reading strategies and reading comprehension achievement because the correlation coefficient is 0.033 which is very weak correlation category. It seems that most of the students were not familiar to the strategies in reading comprehension therefore more understanding of strategies is needed until a reading comprehension problem is solved.Keywords: Correlation, Reading Strategies, Reading comprehension Achievement

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jall

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy) is an academic biannual journal, published in February and September. The journal contents are managed by the English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Educational Science, Galuh University. The objective of the journal is to provide a ...