Stairs: English Language Education Journal
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): STAIRS: English Language Education Journal

The Correlation between Students’ Reading Speed and Their Reading Comprehension in Descriptive Text

Dewi, Risnawati (Unknown)
Mulyana, Agus (Unknown)
Nuraini, Hery (Unknown)
Purnawati (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Nov 2022

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to find out the correlation between students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension of descriptive text among the tenth-grade students of SMAN 14 Kabupaten Tangerang in the academic year 2018/2019. The population of this research is the whole students in tenth grade at SMAN 14 Kabupaten Tangerang. The writers chose 73 students as the sample of this research by using simple random sampling. In this research, the writers applied principles of the quantitative method with correlation form. The data was collected by using Reading Speed as variable X and Reading Comprehension as variable Y. The data is analyzed by using Pearson correlate and the result of it is 0.398. It means the result of r-xy (0.398) is higher than the r-table (0.329). So it can be concluded that there is a positive correlation between students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension among tenth-grade students of SMAN 14 Kabupaten Tangerang in academic years 2018/2019.

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Journal Info

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stairs

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Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Focus and Scope STAIRS: English Language Education Journal is a biannual open-access publication issued in May and November. STAIRS aims to provide the international audience with original studies encompassing a variety of topics in English language education, including English Teaching and ...