Author (Penulis)

ROLYSTYA KURNIA R
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

10.1.01.08.0231

Abstract

Reading can be one of important skills in English because by reading, the students can get information to enlarge and develop their knowledge and capability as well as to get entertainment. By reading, the students do not only able to get information and entertainment, but also able to enlarge and develop their language knowledge because by reading, they can learn about how to construct a text.In other words, the students who read a lot of text in many kinds of types will get more vocabulary than who do not have reading habit. The objective of the research:is there any positive and significant correlation between the students’ reading comprehension and their writing ability to the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Kertosono in Academic Year 2014/2015?. This research is used quantitative approach and correlation design because the writer needs to know the correlation of reading comprehension and writing ability. The population of the research is the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 4Kertosono. While the sample taken is the class 7-A consists of 30 students. The research was done in 2 meetings and the technique of analizing the data uses correlation product moment. They are reading test and writing test. The result of the data analysis mentioned, the writer found that the result of r-product moment is compared with the result of table of r-product moment in the degree of freedom 29. The result of 5% is 0.367 and 1% is 0.470. It means that r-observed is higher than r-table 5%. So, the result of the research is significant.Then the result is compared with the t-table of N-2, 30-2 = 28. It can be seen that the t-result is 7.354 is more than the t-table of 5%, 2.048. It means that the result is really significant. So, the result of this research is clearly prove that there is significant correlation between the students’ reading comprehension with the students’ writing ability. Finally the writer gives suggestions to the teacher should motivate the students to read more. Good reading comprehension can help the students in writing their construction. So, in this way, the teacher can integrate the teaching writing with reading task.

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PUBLISHED

2017-04-11

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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