ABSTRACT

Nur Sari Latifah, 2017, Correlation Between Reading Strategy Used and Reading
Comprehension of the Second Grade Students at MTsN 3 Bengkalis.
Keywords: Reading Strategy, Reading Comprehension.
Reading strategies was a technique, tatics, cognitive abilities and specific
method of approaching a problem or task to make us easier to get something new
from the book or the text. Reading comprehension can be defined as the process in
which the readers extracting and constructing meaning from a text by interpreting
textual information in the light of prior knowledge and experiences using appropriate
and efficient comprehension strategies.
This research design of this study was a correlational study. There are two
variables: Independent and Dependent variables. The independent variables is
reading strategy and dependent variable is reading comprehension. The sample of
this research is 23 students of the second grade student. The instrument of the
research is questionnaire and reading comprehension test. This research used the
field research. In the field research, the researcher give a test about reading
comprehension and questionnaire as a reading strategy to the student. The data were
analyzed by using SPSS 20. Data had been converted to coefficient correlation by
using pearson product moment as a formula to get the value of the data.
The result of this research is Memory strategies is the most strategy used by
the student (M=2.70), Cognitive strategies (L=2.46), Compensation strategies
(L=2.36), Metacognitive strategies (M=2.83), Affective strategies (M=2.70), and
Social Strategies (M=2.75). After that, the average reading comprehension test is 60.
There are 2 students get very good in range 80-100. Five students get the fair in
range 60-69. Eight students get good in range 70-79. Then, five students get the very
poor in range 0-54.