The objective of this study was to find out whether or not there was a significant correlation between students’ motivation and their reading comprehension. This research approach that used quantitative with research design was correlation. The population of this research was tenth grade science students at SMAN 1 Bengkulu in academic year 2021/2022, and the sample was the students of X IPA 3. In collecting data, researcher uses some instrument such as motivation questionnaires and reading comprehension test. After getting the data, they were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Formula. The analysis was found out that there was a significant correlation between students’ motivation in reading and their reading comprehension. The correlation coefficient was the rvalue 0,966 that was higher than rtable 0,329. The result indicated that the Ho is rejected and the Ha is accepted.
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