The Correlation Between Student’s Reading Strategies and Reading Achievement of University Islam Malang

Abstract

The importance of reading skill that is mention by Devito (2014) explained that reading makes the students develop their language skills, to know the new world, to enrich their social life and then get the activities, which make fun enough. Also Adam (2015) explained that reading is the basic ways of obtaining information in the society, environment, and the academic. With that statement becomes main ideas of this study to know whether there is correlation between student’s reading strategies and reading achievement of collage students. This study uses quantitative method because the focus of this research is on two variables, the number relation of reading strategies and reading achievement. For the participant of this study is 55 students of UNISMA (University of Islam Malang) from third semester English department. The instrument of this study is survey reading strategies questionnaire and reading score as data collection. To analyze the data, the researcher uses T-test analysis using SPSS. The conclusion of this study that there is correlation between reading strategies and reading achievement. The data shows that the pearson correlation (r) value is 0.867. It means that the pearson corelation is very strong. And for the significance level is 0.00 which means the p value is less than 0.01. With that conclusion the researcher can assume that reading strategies has positive effect for the reading achievement entirely following by researcher hypothesis that also accepted. Keywords: Correlation, Reading Strategies, Reading Achievement