A CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN ATTITUDE TOWARDS LEARNING ENGLISH AND READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE XI BAHASA 1 STUDENTS AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 3 JEMBER

Abstract

The result of this correlation research which was analysis by using Spearman Rank Order Correlation showed that the correlation coefficient was 0.623. It showed that the degree of the correlation between students’ attitude towards learning English and reading comprehension achievement was in moderate strong relationship. The coefficient correlation was 0 <0.623< 1 or there was a positive correlation. This means that the increase of variable X (Attitude towards learning English) is followed by the increase of variable Y (Reading Comprehension Achievement). Most of the students who got a high scores in questionnaire, they also got good score in reading. The students whose questionnaire scores were high indicated having positive attitude. In other words, when the students had positive attitude, they would get a good score in reading performance and vice versa. Based on the calculation, the significant value was found 0.001 which means that the significant value < 0.05. It indicates that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected “There is no correlation between attitude towards learning English and reading comprehension achievement of the grade XI Bahasa 1 students at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember in the 2015/2016 academic year”. Therefore, when the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected as the consequence the alternative hypotheses (Ha) which was formulated: “There is a significant correlation between attitude towards learning English and reading comprehension achievement of the grade XI Bahasa 1 students at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember in the 2015/2016 academic year” was accepted.