THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING SELF�EFFICACY AND READING COMPREHENSION (A correlational study on the twelfth grade students of science class at SMAN 5 Bengkulu)

The purpose of this research was to find out the correlation between reading self�efficacy and reading comprehension. The research applied correlational study
which used quantitative design. The sample was 273 of twelfth grade students of
science class at SMAN 5 Bengkulu. The data were collected by using two
instruments: (1) the reading self-efficacy questionnaire which was used to
measure the students’ reading self-efficacy and (2) reading comprehension test
which was used to know the students’ reading comprehension. The correlation
between the two variables was calculated by using Pearson Product Moment in
SPSS 15. The result shows that there is a significant correlation between reading
self-efficacy and reading comprehension. The score of significance level is < 0.05
(0.000 < 0.05) which means that H1 was accepted and H0 was rejected. So, it can
be inferred that the higher the reading self-efficacy, the higher the students’
reading comprehension.
Key words: Reading Comprehension; Self-Efficacy