THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING FLUENCY AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IT AL-FITIYAH PEKANBARU

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This research discussed about the correlation between Students’ Reading
Fluency and Students’ Reading Comprehension at Senior High School IT AlFitiyah

Pekanbaru. There were 3 formulations of the problems, they were:
(1)How is students’ reading fluency at Senior High School IT Al-Fitiyah
Pekanbaru?. (2)How is students’ reading comprehension at Islamic Senior High
School Al-Fitiyah Pekanbaru?. (3)Is there any significant correlation between
students’ reading fluency and their reading comprehension at Senior High School
IT Al-Fitiyah Pekanbaru?. The design of the research is a correlational study,
which the oral test and multiple choice test were administered to the 12 students.
The collected data were analyzed using Pearson “r”Product Moment Correlation
using SPSS 20 program in order to find out whether there was or not any
significant correlation between reading fluency and reading comprehension at
Senior High School IT Al-Fitiyah Pekanbaru. The result showed that there is
significant correlation of students’ reading fluency score to their reading
comprehension score. Mean for students reading fluency score was 65.33 and the
mean for students reading comprehension score was 66.33, p was 0.016, the 2tailed

value was smaller than 0.05 (p<0.05). The result showed that the mean
scores did correlate much between both students score. In short, the hypothesis of
this research shows that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, so it can be concluded
that “There is a significant correlation between reading fluency and students’
reading comprehension of Senior High School IT Al-Fitiyah Pekanbaru”.

Key Words: Correlation, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension

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