THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ORAL READING FLUENCY AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION AT STATE ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MODEL KUOK KAMPAR

Abstrak / Ringkasan

Based on the observation before, it was found that the second year students of MTsN
Model Kuok Kampar got some problems in reading comprehension such as some of the
students were good at reading orally in narrative text but poor to comprehend the text, some
of the students were poor to read orally in narrative text but good to comprehending the text,
and they were not fluent to read orally in narrative text. The aim of this research was to find
out the correlation between students’ oral reading fluency and their reading comprehension.
There were two variables used in this research, which were X variable (students’ oral reading
fluency) and Y (students’ reading comprehension). The subject of this research was second
grade students at MTsN Model Kuok Kampar whereas the object of this research was the
correlation between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension. The population of this
research was 151 students with the total sample was 44 students. In order to choose the
sample, the researcher used the cluster random sampling technique. In collecting the data, the
researcher used tes for oral reading fluency and reading comprehension. The technique of
data analysis the researcher used was Pearson product moment From the data analysis which
had been done by using SPSS 16.0 Version, it could be shown that: 1) the score of correlation
coefficient is 0.502> 0.40, it means that Ha was accepted which indicated that there is a
significant correlation between students’ oral reading fluency and reading comprehension. 2)
The probability of score sig (2- tailed) is 0.001< 0.05. it means that Ha was accepted. In other
words, there is a significant correlation between oral reading fluency and reading
comprehension.


Keywords: Correlation, Oral Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension.

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