Institusion
Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang
Author
ELIS MAISYAROH, NIM.372016012
Subject
Tata Bahasa Inggris
Datestamp
2020-09-08 04:06:02
Abstract :
ABSTRACT
Maisyaroh, Elis, 2020. The Correlation between Students? Anxiety and Their Reading
Comprehension to the Tenth Grade Students of SMA YWKA Palembang. Thesis,
English Education Study Program, Sarjana Degree (S1), Faculty of Teacher Training
and Education of Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang. Advisors (I) Sri Yuliani,
M.Pd. (II) Sri Hartati, M.Pd.
Keywords: correlation, anxiety, and reading comprehension
The tittle of thesis was ?The Correlation between Students? Anxiety and Their
Reading Comprehension to the Tenth Grade Students of SMA YWKA Palembang?.
The formulation of the research was ?weather there was any significant correlation
between students? anxiety and their reading comprehension to the tenth-grade
students of SMA YWKA Palembang?. The objective of the research was defined to
know the correlation between students? anxiety and their reading comprehension to
the tenth-grade students of SMA YWKA Palembang. The samples of the research were
72 students taken by purposive sampling method. The data were collected through a
ready-made questionnaire by Masoud Zoghi about Foreign Language Reading
Anxiety Inventory (EFLRAI). The data were analyzed by pearson product-moment
correlation coeficient. Based on the data analysis, the value of correlation between
students? anxiety and students? reading comprehension r-obtained (-.157) was lower
than r-table (.232). Since the value of r-obtained was lower than r-table, the null
hypothesis (Ho) was accepted while the researcher hypothesis (Ha) was rejected. It
could be concluded that there were no correlation between students? anxiety and their
reading comprehension to the tenth-grade students of SMA YWKA Palembang.