The Correlation Between Students’ Reading Behavior and Their Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to determine whether there is a significant correlation between students’ reading behavior and their reading comprehension at the Eighth Grade of Junior High School Telekomunikasi Pekanbaru. The design of this research is correlational research. There were 21 students as research sample through total sampling. The subject of this research is the eighth grade students at Junior High School Telekomunikasi Pekanbaru. To collect the data, researcher used questionare and test. The technique of analyzing data was using pearson product moment correlatin and it was eased by using SPSS 20.0 program. Based on the data analysis, the researcher concludes that the level of students’ reading behavior in the eighth grade of Junior High School Telekomunikasi Pekanbaru is Excellent Level. The level of students’ reading comprehension in the eighth grade of Junior High School Telekomunikasi Pekanbaru is Good Level. It indicates a sig.value is 0.000. it is less than 0.05 (sig. (2 tailed) <0,05). The result the sig. (2-tailed) is 0.000. It can be concluded that there is a significant correlation between students’ reading behavior and their reading comprehension in the eighth grade of Junior High School Telekomunikasi Pekanbaru.