Students’ Perception of Pre-Service Teachers’ Competence and Their Reading Achievement during Pandemic

Abstract

The objective of this research was to find out the correlation between students’ perception of pre-service teachers' competence and their reading achievement. The method of this research was classified into correlational research design. The participants of this research were 58 students in eleventh grade at SMK Negeri 1 Lamongan. The instruments of this research were questionnaire and test (reading achievement test). The test and questionnaire were analyzed by looking at the total score from the highest to the lowest, and the result of correlation was interpreted by looking the significance criteria. The results of this research indicate that the correlation coefficient is negligible with a value of -.069 and the significant value shows .608. At sig. 2- tailed shows .608 > .05 which means that there is no significant correlation. Suggestions proposed on the basis of the result are addressed to EFL preservice teachers as well as other researcher who wish to pursue related topics in future research. The suggestion concern about the importance of pre-service teachers to given role model of good character, behavior, motivation, and attitude towards students and the necessity of further studies on the same or other factors as they are related to the reading comprehension skill.