The Relationship between Students’ Interest in Reading toward Students’ Reading Comprehension at the University Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka 2020/2021 Academic Year

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Rossye Admiaty Radal: 1701055020. “The Relationship between Students’ Interest in Reading toward Students’ Reading Comprehension at the University Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka 2020/2021 Academic Year”.
The research aims to investigate the relationship between students’ interest in reading toward students’ reading comprehension of English Education department in the second semester at the University Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka 2020/2021 Academic Year. In this research, the quantitative method particularly correlation study was employed. The population comprises of 94 students in the second semester. By using random sampling technique, there were 30 students involved as participants in this research. The data were collected by using two instruments namely the questionnaire of interest in reading and reading comprehension test. The analysis of the data used Pearson Product moment correlation. The result yields that there is statistically significant relationship between students’ interest in reading and students’ reading comprehension, with r = .000, p = .865, N = 30. In short, the interest in reading based on interest does relate to reading comprehension at The University Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka 2020/2021 Academic Year.