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Penulis      :    Vida Hardianty Putri Luis

Tahun       :    2017

Judul        :    THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING MOTIVATION AND READING COMPREHENSION OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF SMPN 12 PEKANBARU

Jurnal         :    Jurnal Online Mahasiswa (Jom) Universitas Riau

Volume      :    Vol 4, No 2

1.      The purpose of Research

The purpose of this research is to get the information wether there are some related correlation between reading motivation those are having by the students to their reading comprehension.   

2.      Theory

The writer uses some theories to support the research such as 

a.      Goodman (2008) reading means understanding the text or understanding whathas been read.

b.      Armbruster (2000) comprehension is the process of creating an understanding of the words and the sentence in the text that areinterconnected.

c.       Grabe and Stoller (2005), motivation is another key to successful in reading comprehension.

d.      Brown (2001) states that students with high motivation to read English will

better prepare themselves to engage the process of teaching and learning in the classroom

3.      Methodology

a.      Subject in this research are   the third year students of SMN 12 Pekanbaru with the total number of students was 312 students.

b.      The sample was chosen by using cluster random sampling.

·         The sample of this research was class IX4

·         Before conducting the research, the writer tested the instrument by validity and reliability test

b. To formulate the data the writer used a correlation Product Moment

To find out the correlation between variable X (students‟ reading motivation) and variable Y (students‟ reading comprehension) and the symbol of the correlation product moment. After analyzing the data, it can be interpreted based on the table of rxy Product Moment interpretation.

c. The data were analyzed by using SPSS 21.0.

4.      Result

Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that there is a correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension.  Product moment that showed that the value is 0.543 with the > which is 3.9 > 2.72.

5.      Conclusion

If we see the data above we can get the clear information that this research is important enough because it has  proved to us that  motivation  always roles an important way to emphasize  students’ ability in order  get a good value in their points.

But,  The steps to increase the students’ motivation were not mention by the researcher. 

THE JOURNAL IS BELOW

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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING MOTIVATION AND READING COMPREHENSION OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF SMPN 12 PEKANBARU

Vida Hardianty Putri Luis, Hadriana,Ph. D., Erni, S.Pd., M.Hum

vidahardiantyputri_luis@yahoo.com, ad1208@yahoo.co.id , erni.rosda@yahoo.co.id

CP. 085220542666

English Study Program

Language and Arts Department

Faculty of Teachers Training and Education

Universitas Riau

Abstract: This correlational study is aimed to find out the correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension of the third year students of SMPN 12 Pekanbaru. The sample was chosen by using cluster random sampling as many as 39 students. The instrument used in this study was questionnaire and test; reading motivation questionnaire and reading comprehension test. Reading motivation questionnaire is used to know the students’ reading motivation while reading comprehension test is used to find out the students’ ability in understanding a text. The obtained data were assessed by using Product Moment’s formula and analyzed by using SPSS 21.0 for windows. Based on the data analysis, it shows that there is moderate, significant and positive correlation between grammar mastery and reading comprehension of the third year students of SMPN 12 Pekanbaru. Therefore, it answered the research question that there is a correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension.

Key words: correlation, reading motivation, reading comprehension 2

HUBUNGAN ANTARA MOTIVASI READING DAN PEMAHAMAN READING SISWA TAHUN KETIGA DI SMPN 12 PEKANBARU

Vida Hardianty Putri Luis, Hadriana,Ph. D., Erni, S.Pd., M.Hum

vidahardiantyputri_luis@yahoo.com, ad1208@yahoo.co.id , erni.rosda@yahoo.co.id

CP. 085220542666

Program Studi Bahasa Inggris

Jurusan Bahasa dan Seni

Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan

Universitas Riau

Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menemukan hubungan antara motivasi reading dan pemahaman reading tahun ketiga di SMPN 12 Pekanbaru. Sample dipilih dengan menggunakan teknik cluster random sampling sebanyak 39 siswa. Instrumen dalam penelitian ini adalah kuesioner dan tes; kuesioner motivasi reading dan tes pemahaman reading. Kuesioner motivasi reading digunakan untuk mengetahui motivasi reading siswa sedangkan tes pemahaman reading digunakan untuk mengetahui kemampuan siswa dalam memahami teks. Data yang diperoleh dinilai dengan menggunakan rumus Product Moment dan dianalisa menggunakan SPSS 21.0 program statistik. Berdasarkan tes Product Moment menunjukkan bahwa ada hubungan yang signifikan dan positif antara motivasi reading dan pemahaman reading siswa tahun ketiga di SMPN 12 Pekanbaru yang menunjukkan adanya korelasi medium. Oleh karena itu, rumusan masalah penelitian ini terjawab bahwa terdapat hubungan antara motivasi reading dan pemahaman reading tahun ketiga di SMPN 12 Pekanbaru.

Kata Kunci: Korelasi, Motivasi Reading, Pemahaman Reading 

INTRODUCTION

Reading is one of skills which should be mastered by students of Junior High School. Goodman (2008) reading means understanding the text or understanding what has been read. If readers can read the words but do not understand what they are reading, they are not really reading. Thus, reading will be useless without comprehension. According to Armbruster (2000) comprehension is the process of creating an understanding of the words and the sentence in the text that are interconnected.

According to Grabe and Stoller (2005), motivation is another key to successful in reading comprehension. It has an important impact on reading development. According to their motivation is an individual trait, related to a person‟s goals and beliefs that is observed through task persistence and positive feelings toward an activity. The low or high motivation to read English finally influenced the result of the reading. They also state that English language teaching is one of the important factors of international communication activities. So, students need to be trained to use language in different areas such as reading, writing, speaking, and listening to contribute their international communication. Moreover, in foreign language learning, one of the most important factors for the learners is the method which teachers use in their teaching to facilitate English language learning along with the improvement of international communication activities in the world, reading motivation is becoming more important and focuses on the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing but reading comprehension is most important and facilitate English language learning. Reading motivation is regarded as the most vital and necessary for learners in both a classroom context and an extracurricular environment. Reading motivation is even important for learners since they have to be motivated in the English language learning and improve their reading comprehension. So, reading motivation is vital to the learners‟ ability to read and comprehend texts purposefully are crucial for EFL students. Accordingly, since the need for academic success in all areas of learning, all English foreign language learners need to enhance their English reading motivation for a better understanding of written texts.

English plays an important role in our educational system. English is the most common language used in the Internet. Mastering English will allow students to access to an incredible amount of information. In learning language, learners need to know four basic language skills in English. They are listening, speaking, reading and writing skill.

Brown (2001) states that students with high motivation to read English will better prepare themselves to engage the process of teaching and learning in the classroom. Teachers, parents or observer will be easy to differ them one with low motivation. Students with high motivation will prefer to read more books, ask many questions to teachers, do the exercises, expose themselves to English language using, trying to use their English skill to communicate with others, or happily engage in the process of teaching and learning English. Meanwhile, students with low motivation usually do not strong enough to engage in the process of teaching and learning English. They rarely ask questions even though they do not understand the subject. They will have to be forced by teacher or parents to read the book, do the exercises, and or do the tasks from teacher. Students with low motivation usually assume English subject as a difficult or even the most difficult subject to be learn. 4

Based on Curriculum (KTSP) that exists in the school, reading is one of English skills that has to be learned. The basic reading competence of reading of the third year is students are able to comprehend the meaning of functional text and short simple essay in the form of descriptive, recount and narrative text. From that competence, there are several indicators. They are:

1. Students understand about textual meaning from descriptive, recount and narrative text.

2. Students understand about rhetorical steps from descriptive, recount and narrative text.

3. Students understand about communicative purposes from descriptive, recount and narrative text.

4. Students understand about language features of descriptive, recount and narrative text.

Based on the observation, the writer found out that many students still confused in comprehending texts. As we know, reading without comprehension is not a reading. Some of them get difficulties in finding main idea of the texts, comprehending the meaning of the questions, answering the questions related to the text so that they lose their interest in reading texts even though they have been taught about things related to the texts. That‟s why writer is interested in conducting research in order to know whether there is any correlation between students‟ reading motivation and reading comprehension.

The writer chose the third year students of SMPN 12 Pekanbaru as the object of the research because most of texts are taught at the third year, namely descriptive text, recount text and narrative text for reading skill. In addition, the materials that the writer will research are already taught in the second year.

Therefore, it can be assumed that the higher student‟s reading motivation is, the higher reading comprehension student will be.

METHODOLOGY

This research belongs to correlational research which determines the relationship between students‟ reading motivation is as variable X and their reading comprehension is as variable Y. This research was conducted at SMPN 12 Pekanbaru. The population of this research was all of the third year students of SMN 12 Pekanbaru with the total number of students was 312 students. The sample of this research was class IX4 which consisted of 39 students. The sample was chosen by using cluster random sampling. The writer selected the classes randomly as the sample and try out class by using lottery technique. The writer asked all the chairmen of the third year to take a piece of paper and class IX3 was chosen as the try out class and class IX4 as sample class. To conduct this research the writer used questionnaire and test, reading motivation questionnaire and reading comprehension test. Before conducting the research, the writer tested the instrument by validity and reliability test. After collecting the data, the writer used correlation Product Moment formula to find out the correlation between variable X (students‟ reading motivation) and variable Y (students‟ reading comprehension) and the symbol of the correlation product moment is „r‟. The data were analyzed by using 5

SPSS 21.0. After analyzing the data, it can be interpreted based on the table of rxy Product Moment‟s interpretation.

RESEARCH FINDINGS

In this section, the writer presents the findings focusing on the correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension.

The Students’ Reading Motivation

The distribution of students‟ reading motivation score is presented below.