THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS READING

COMPREHENSION AND THEIR NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH WRITING

ABILITY AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS IN SMPN 5 CILEGON

By:
Lita Tri Lestari
(2223121758)

ABSTRACT
This research has three formulations of the problem: how students reading
comprehension, how students writing narrative text, and significant correlation
between students reading comprehension and their ability in writing narrative
paragraph at the second year students of SMPN 5 Cilegon. The objective of this
research is to describe the students reading comprehension ability, to describe the
students narrative paragraph writing ability, and to find out the correlation
between students reading comprehension and their ability in writing narrative
paragraph.
The research design was correlational research. The sample of this research
covers 30 students which were selected from 25% total amount of population, 120
students in 3 classes. The population and sampling technique used was
convenience sampling. In collecting the data the researcher used two kinds of test
as the instrument: multiple choice and essay. The multiple choice test was used to
measure the students capability of reading comprehension, and the essay test was
used to measure the students capability of narrative paragraph writing. The data
collected was analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation technique.
From the data analysis, which has been analyzed by using SPSS of windows
version 16 programs, it was obtained that rxy is 0.634 and df=N-nr is 28. Based on
the acquisition value of rxy, it can be seen that rxy (0.634) was higher than rtable at
significant level 5% (0.361) and 1% (0.463). The statistic hypothesis stated: If
rxy>rtable means there is significant correlation and Ha is accepted, Ho is rejected; If
rxy<rtable means there is no significant correlation and Ha is rejected, Ho is
accepted. It can be concluded that that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected, and
there was significant correlation between the two variables with contribution
percentage 40.2%.
Keyword: Correlation, reading comprehension, writing skill, narrative paragraph