scholarly journals THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS READING ATTITUDE AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Indah Windra Dwie Agustiani
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
English Education ◽  
Small Contribution ◽  
Reading Attitude ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
Education Study

This study was aimed at finding out (1)) whether or not there was a significant correlation between students reading attitude and their reading comprehension,. The data were collected by distributing questionnaire sheets and testing a reading comprehension test for 170 students. Pearson Product Moment Coefficients Correlation and Regression Analysis were used to find out whether or not there was a significant relationship between students reading attitude toward reading comprehension achievement of the fourth semester students of English education study program of FKIP Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang as well as their contribution. The findings of the study showed that, students reading attitude only had a very small contribution to their reading comprehension achievement.

scholarly journals THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MASTERY ON LEXICAL COLLOCATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wulan Trisviana ◽  
Rudi Afriazi ◽  
Gita Mutiara Hati
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
English Education ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Correlational Study ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Comprehension Test ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Quantitative Design ◽  
Academic Year

The aims of this research were to find out the correlation between students’ mastery of lexical collocation and their reading comprehension. This research applied correlational study which used quantitative design. The subjects were 66 of the Fifth-Semester Students of English Education Study Program at University of Bengkulu in Academic Year 2018/2019. The data were collected from two instruments: (1) lexical collocation test was used to get data about students’ mastery of lexical collocation and (2) reading comprehension test was used to get data about students’ reading comprehension achievement. The result of the two instruments counted by using Pearson’s Product Moment formula and checked it by using SPSS 22 Program. The conclusion were (1) The result score of lexical collocation test showed that 53% of the students got score over 70, it means that half of the total subject of the students have a good knowledge of collocation especially in lexical collocation. (2) There was high significant correlation between students’ mastery of lexical collocation and their reading comprehension. The result of calculation using Pearson Product moment formula and SPSS 22 Program can be seen in table 4.1 which showed the score of arithmetic r > the score of r table (0,825 > 0,315). It means that Ha was accepted and H0 was rejected.

scholarly journals The Correlations among Reading Habit, Multiple Intelligences, and Writing Mastery of English Education Study Program Students of Sriwijaya University

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Ayu Lestari ◽  
Sofendi Sofendi ◽  
Ismail Petrus
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Intelligences ◽  
English Education ◽  
Reading Habit ◽  
Reading Attitude ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Pearson Product Moment Correlation ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Academic Year

The objectives of this study were (1) to describe the students’ Reading habit, multiple intelligences, and writing mastery, (2) to find out whether or not there was significant correlation among the students’ Reading habit, multiple intelligences, and writing mastery, and (3) to find out whether or not the students’ Reading habit and multiple intelligences contributed to their writing mastery. In this study, 76 undergraduate EFL students of English Education Study Program of Sriwijaya University in the academic year 2017/2018 were chosen as a samples by means of purposive sampling. This study applied correlational research design. The data were collected by using questionnaires and test, and were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient and regression analysis. The results showed that (1) most of the students (50%)  were in the average level of reading habit; most of the students (15.7%) had six dominant intelligences; most of the students (57.8%) were in the good level of writing mastery; (2) reading attitude was the only habit which had a negative and significant correlation to the students’ writing mastery (r= -271, p< 0.018); reading attitude also had positive and negative and significant correlation to the students’ ideas  (r= 0.367, p< 0.001) and thesis voice audience (r= -0.236, p=< 0.040); logical intelligence was the only intelligence which had negative and significant correlation to the students’ writing mastery (r= -0.238, p= 0.038); ideas was the only the aspect of writing had a positive  and significant correlation to the students’ logical intelligence (r= 0.267, p= 0.020) and intrapersonal intelligence (r= 0.250, p= 0.029); (3) reading attitude became the best predictor and influenced the students’ writing mastery with 7.3% contribution (R2 = 0.073).

scholarly journals Enhancing the Reading Comprehension of Students in Narrative Text Using Story Face Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Albian Syah ◽  
Joni Saputra
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
English Education ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Education Study

Albiansyah Master of English Education Study Program, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of JakartaEmail: [email protected] Jhoni Saputra Department of English Education, Islamic University of Indragiri This study was a Classroom Action Research that deals with story face strategy’s use to enhance the students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. The purpose of this study was to reveal the execution of story face strategy in the process of narrative text teaching and learning, and also to describe about reading comprehension of after using story face strategy in classroom. The participants were all students of grade X.2 grade of Miftahul Huda Sungai Luar. The instruments to collect qualitative data were observation sheet, interview, and field note. The quantitative instrument is reading comprehension test. On the basis of data analysis, it is found that Story Face Strategy enhanced students 'understanding of reading in narrative text. The improvements occurred in cycle 1 and cycle 2. The improvement of students’ reading comprehension is 59.4 (enough) to 71.7 (good). The result suggests that the use of the story face strategy to enhance students 'understanding of reading in narrative text is successful for grade X.2 students. The variables that alter the enhancement of the students depending on the results of the interview and observation indicate students' enthusiasm when using of story face sheets in the story face strategy.Keywords: story face strategy, reading comprehension, narrative text

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Nur Olivia Siregar ◽  
Rudi Afriazi ◽  
Arasuli Arasuli
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
English Education ◽  
Correlation Method ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
Weak Correlation ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Quantitative Correlation ◽  
Education Study ◽  
The Subject

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

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF ONOMATOPOEIA IN COMIC STRIPS AND INSTRUMENTAL MOTIVATION TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aulia Putri ◽  
Yuli Angraini ◽  
Sulastri Manurung
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Factorial Design ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
English Education ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Study Program ◽  
The Third ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Instrumental Motivation ◽  
And Control

The aims of the research were to measure a significant effect on students’ average scores of reading comprehension achievement between students:1)who both had high instrumental motivation in experiment class (Onomatopoeia in Comic Strips) and control class;2) who had high instrumental motivation in control class and the ones who had middle instrumental motivation in experiment class;3) who both had middle instrumental motivation in experiment class (Onomatopoeia in Comic Strips) and control class;4) who had high instrumental motivation in experiment class and the ones who had middle instrumental motivation in control class;and 5) to find whether there was an interaction or not on students’ reading comprehension achievement taught using Onomatopoeia in Comic Strips towards instrumental motivation. Experimental with factorial design was used in this research by using 40 samples of the third semester students of English Education Study Program of UNRIKA classified into high and middle instrumental motivation. The validity used content validity while reliability of the data measured by Cronbach Alpha using SPSS 24. The data were collected through Onomatopoeia test and Gardner’s instrumental motivation questionnaire. It was found from the analysis that both of the data were normal, homogenous and all hyphoteses had a significant effect. Keywords: Onomatopoeia in Comic Strips, Instrumental Motivation, Reading

scholarly journals Investigation into a Link between Students’ English Reading Speed and Reading Comprehension Achievement: The Case of Indonesian EFL Student Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-213
Author(s):  
Andri Pratama
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Education ◽  
Reading Speed ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Speed Test ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Education Study

The aims of the study were to look at the link between English as a foreign language (EFL) student teachers’ reading speed and reading comprehension achievement and whether it influenced their reading comprehension achievement or not. The population of the study was 583 active EFL student teachers in one English Education Study Program at an Indonesian state Islamic University. By using purposive sampling technique, there were 87 students involved as participants in this study. The data were gained by using two kinds of tests, reading speed test and reading comprehension test. Descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation was employed to analyze the data. From the data analyses, it was found that the correlation between EFL student teachers’ English reading speed attitude and their reading comprehension achievement did not exist. As the result, the second problem was eliminated. In short, reading speed did not have any relation to reading comprehension achievement.

scholarly journals READING COMPREHENSION PROBLEMS IN READING SECTION OF TOEFL TEST

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Dini Febriani ◽  
Elfrida Elfrida ◽  
Fernandita Gusweni Jayanti
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
English Education ◽  
Reading Problem ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Comprehension Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Year

This research aims to find out the reading comprehension problems faced by the eight semester English Education Study Program students of Universitas Bengkulu in Reading Section of TOEFL test. The subject of this research is eight semester students of English Education Study Program in academic year 2018/2019 who have taken TOEFL test in Language Laboratory, FKIP, Universitas Bengkulu. The subject of this research is 70 students of 79 students. This research was used descriptive quantitative as the methodology and the data was collected by using questionnaire as an instrument that distributed via Google-form. The questionnaire consisted of 20 statements which represent 5 aspects of reading comprehension problems by Wutthisingchai (2011). This research uses 4-point Likert Scale to measure students perception of reading problem, ranging from never (1 point), sometimes (2 point), often (3 point), always (4 point). The result shows that the majority of the students have problems in reading comprehension in 5 aspects. The percentage average of each aspect from highest to lowest was the reading comprehension problems related to the Reading Comprehension Process. Second problems is Motivation. Third problems related to Background Knowledge. Fourth related to Lack Reading Strategies. The last problems related to Language Knowledge. From the results, it can be concluded that students of the eight semester at English Education Study Program still have reading comprehension problems.Keywords: Reading comprehension problems, TOEFL Test

scholarly journals The effects of contextual meaning aspects on reading comprehension

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Akhmad Ali Mirza
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
English Education ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Contextual Meaning ◽  
Context Clues

<p>The study is aimed at investigating the effects of contextual meaning aspects on reading comprehension, and finding out whether or not there is effect of reading proficiency, consists of low and high, on reading comprehension and effect of contextual meaning aspects together with reading proficiency on reading comprehension. It was used experimental design in this study. The data were processed and analyzed according to these steps: giving the treatment, checking and scoring, tabulating, analyzing the data by using statistic technique of ANOVA, and making the conclusion based on the analysis. The number of the sample was 34 students of the students of English education study program of Palangka Raya University. The findings show that example clues considered as the easiest and appositive clues as the most difficult of three context clues in this study. Based on the result, it can be concluded that there is significant effect for contextual meaning aspects and reading proficiency on reading comprehension; however, there is no significant effect of contextual meaning aspects together with reading proficiency on reading comprehension.</p>

scholarly journals Speaking Self-Efficacy and EFL Student Teachers’ Speaking Achievement

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
TUTIK ALAWIYAH
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
English Education ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Academic Year

This study was to find out the significant correlation between students’ speaking self-efficacy and their speaking achievement and to know the significant influence of speaking self-efficacy on their speaking achievement. The population of the study was 470 active students of English Education Study Program of Tarbiyah Faculty and Teaching Sciences at State Islamic University of Raden Fatah Palembang in academic year 2017/2018. The sample of this study was 103 students of all the students in sixth semester chosen by using purposive sampling technique, but there were 96 students participating when the study was conducted. A questionnare was used to measure students’ speaking self-efficacy and a speaking test was conducted to know students’ speaking achievement. The collected data then were analyzed by using the correlational and regression analysis computerized with SPSS 22. Based on the analysis results, it was found that there was statistically significant positive correlation between self-efficacy and speaking achievement in p-output was 0.00 which was smaller that 0.05 (0.00<0.05). Besides, the correlational coefficient of the test was .349. Thus, the level of correlation was weak. This study also indicated that students’ speaking-self-efficacy influenced their speaking achievement with contribution 12.2%.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS' READING ATTITUDE WITH THE RESULT OF READING COMPREHENSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 512
Author(s):  
Muhammad Farhan Rafi ◽  
Aang Fatihul Islam ◽  
Dian Anik Cahyani
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
English Education ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Study Program ◽  
English Reading ◽  
Pearson Coefficient ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Reading Activities ◽  
Attitudes Towards Reading

Reading is a very important activity to get abundant information and add new knowledge. As students, reading activities have a very dominant role because they are required to be more scientific and rational in giving opinions or providing information both in oral and written. Besides, students' attitudes towards reading also have an important role. This study focused on their English reading comprehension and attitudes towards reading in English. This study aims to determine whether there is a significant relationship between students' attitudes with the result of reading comprehension. Data was collected by distributing questionnaires and reading comprehension tests for students of STKIP PGRI Jombang in the English Education Study Program. The Pearson Coefficient Product Moment is used to determine whether there is a significant relationship between students' attitudes with the result of reading comprehension. From the results found from the SPSS 16 application with a sample of 63 students in the 2019 class, there is a correlation of 0.478. These result indicates that students' reading attitudes are positively related to their reading comprehension. Thus, students must continue to read to improve their English reading skill.

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