THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING STRATEGIES AND READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF THE SIXTH SEMESTER IN ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF BENGKULU UNIVERSITY

This research is aimed at identifying student’s reading strategies
used and students’s reading comprehension achievement. Then, the
research would like to find out whether or not there is any significant
correlation between reading strategies and reading comprehension
achievement at the sixth-semester students of English Education
Study Program at Universitas Bengkulu. The research was designed
as a quantitative correlation method. The subject of the research
were 78 students of English Education Study Program at Universitas
Bengkulu Academic Year 2018/2019. The alternative hypothesis:
there is any correlation between reading strategies and reading
comprehension achievement. The instrument used for collecting the
data were reading learning strategies questionnaire and reading test.
The collected data were analyzed by Pearson Product Moment
Formula using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)
software version 23. The result of this research revealed that there is
a correlation between reading strategies and reading comprehension
achievement because the correlation coefficient is 0.033 which is
very weak correlation category. It seems that most of the students
were not familiar to the strategies in reading comprehension
therefore more understanding of strategies is needed until a reading
comprehension problem is solved.
Keywords: Correlation, Reading Strategies, Reading comprehension
Achievement