The correlation between students' verbal-linguistic intelligence and their reading comprehension achievement

Abstract

Reading is one of the possibilities that can help students to achieve their success in learning. Reading comprehension skill can provide possibilities to help students achieve their success in learning. By reading a lot of books, articles, journals and many other reading resources, students are able to get new information and knowledge which can bring them to get better in education. Indonesian English proficiency is rated low. English Proficiency Index on English First (2020) revealed that Indonesian was ranked 74th out of 100 countries in 2020. As a result of low English Proficiency of Indonesian, many Indonesians have poor performance in language learning skill including reading skill. However, there are internal and external factor that have an effect on the result of their reading comprehension. One of the factors that the researcher wants to investigate is their intelligence as an internal factor that comes from each individual. Although numerous studies on the relationship between students’ multiple intelligences and their reading comprehension have been done, most of the studies involved students at the university level. There were still few studies examining school students. To fill this gap, this study will examine the relationship between students’ verbal-linguistics intelligence and their reading comprehension achievement in senior high school level. The researcher will collect the data at Senior High School level. After the researcher collect the data of the research, the data will be analyzed by using SPSS. This research uses the correlation formula by Pearson Product Moment Correlation to analyze the data. Pearson product moment correlation will be used to analyze the data which is collected from the result of the two variables measurement.