ABSTRACT

Name : Nur ikhsan
Major : English Education Program
Title : The Correlation between Students’ Motivation and Reading
Comprehension of Eighth Grade Students at State Junior High School N 4 Muaro
Jambi
Keywords: Students Motivation, Reading Comprehension,

The objective of the study is to see the correlation between students‟ motivation
and reading comprehension of Eighth Grade Students at Junior High School N 4
Muaro Jambi, whether there is any correlation between students‟ motivation and
reading comprehension.
Furthermore, in this quantitative research, the writer used correlational
study by Product Moment Correlation technique or Pearson’s Correlation
Product Moment technique. Product Moment Correlation is one of technique
that usually used to find out the significance of the correlation between two
variables. There are two main variables in this research. Students Motivation as
independent variable (variable X) and reading comprehension as dependent
variable (variable Y). The data were collected through test (reading
comprehension test) and questionnaires of reading motivation.
From the calculation by using Pearson’s Product Moment formula, it is
obtained that the value of “r” product moment (rxy) or “r” observation (ro) is 0,89.
The degree of freedom (df) is 25. The degree of significance 5% is 0.396, and the
degree of significance 1% is 0.505. So it means that the hypothesis ro is bigger
than rt (0.89 > 0.396 and 0.89 < 0.505). The result of hypothesis of this research
is: alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is
rejected, so it means there is strong correlation between students‟ motivation and
reading comprehension.