THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION AT ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MUHAMMADIYAH PENYASAWAN

Abstrak / Ringkasan

Based on the observation before, it was found that the second year students of
MTs M Penyasawan got some problems in reading comprehension such as the
students’ reading practice score is sometimes lower than the passing grade, the
students have no self-confidence, the students do not persist in doing the task in
learning English, the students keep asking to their friend instead of reading and trying
to understand a text by themselves. The aim of this research was to find out the
correlation between students’ intrinsic motivation and their reading comprehension.
There were two variables used in this research, which were X variable (students’
intrinsic motivation) and Y (students’ reading comprehension). The subject of this
research was second grade students at MTs M Penyasawan whereas the object of this
research was the correlation between intrinsic motivation and reading comprehension.
The population of this research was 45 students. In order to choose the sample, The
researcher used the total sampling technique. In collecting the data, the researcher
used questionnaire for intrinsic motivation and test for reading comprehension. The
technique of data analysis the researcher used was Pearson Product Moment using
SPSS 16.0 Version, it could be shown that: 1) the score of correlation coefficient is
0.818 > 0.40, it means that Ha is accepted which indicates that there is a significant
correlation between students’ intrinsic motivation and reading comprehension. 2) The
probability of score sig (2- tailed) is 0.000< 0.05. it means that Ha is accepted. In
other words, there is a significant correlation between intrinsic motivation and
reading comprehension.

Keywords: correlation, Intrinsic Motivation, Reading Comprehension.

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