| dc.description.abstract | Reading is one of the fundamental skills that must be learned in order to understand the dynamic of background knowledge by the reader. Any text that was read required a high level of understanding from the student. As a result, students developed opinions regarding the abilities of reading teachers. How their teacher might provide them any therapy that allowed them to readily understand and absorb any type of literature. One of the most crucial impressions in teaching reading comprehension was when the learner luxuriated in the reading experience. In another word, students' perceptions are formed not only by themselves, but also by their surroundings and motivational support, which might affect them in increasing their comprehension. Consequently, it was necessary to find out and to do the investigation whether there was any correlation between students’ perception on the reading lecturers’ competences and reading achievement at the fourth semester in English Department at University of Islam Malang.
The researcher applied quantitative method in conducting this research. The population of this research is two classes of Reading 4; those are class 4A and B. The number of students in Class A is 30 and Class B is 29. He chose students of Reading 4 as his subjects who assessed their Reading lecturer by filling the questionnaires in accordance with their respective perceptions. In collecting the data researcher used a questionnaire and collected students’ final scores of Reading 4. This questionnaire was adapted from Ningrum (2018).
The result of this research showed the mean of students’ perception was 100.186 with standard deviation was 12.123 and Reading 4 final score was 82.694, then standard deviation is 12.360. The r observed of students’ perception and reading achievement was at .960 with P value .000. The level of significance of the P value was less than 0.05 or 0.000 < 0.05. It means that there was significant correlation between students’ perception on the reading lecturers’ competences and students’ reading achievement of fourth semester in English Department at University of Islam Malang. In the term of size, it showed that two variables were in very high categories because the contribution of students’ perception and reading achievement was 92%. Likewise, the alternative hypothesis was significant at 0.01 and it could be said that students’ perception on reading lecturers’ competences correlated with their reading achievement.
The conclusion of calculation of this correlation research was that there was positive relation between students’ perception on the reading lecturers’ competences and reading achievement of fourth semester at University of Islam Malang. Students' perceptions of reading teachers' abilities were critical for each student's capacity to accomplish. Teachers' behaviors and effectiveness are constrained by the social, cultural, institutional, and effectiveness restrictions of their professional context, regardless of their degree of expertise (Putnam & Borko, 2000).
Key Word: Correlation, Students’ Perception, Reading Lecturers' Competences, and Reading Achievement | en_US |
