PROPOSAL

The Correlation Between Students’ Reading Interest and Their Reading Comprehension at the Eight Grade SMP 4 KUBU
2021/2022
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
I GEDE PUTU RENDI PRANATA YUDA
 
 
 
 
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MAHASARASWATI UNIVERSITY
2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

        Background of the Study

 Reading is an interactive process of communication. The interaction between writer and reader is made
possible through the text.
     Reseach problem
 Based on the background of the problem above researcher will be identified as follows. First, the students
cannot comprehend what the text has read by them. The students do not know how to find the main idea
or important point of the text
  Objective of the study
   There is an of this research that can be seen in the following sentence; to find out how significant the
correlation between the students’ reading interest and their reading comprehension at the eighth grade
students of SMPN 4 kubu.
 Limitation of the study
 Based on the identification of the problem above, it can be seen that there are four problems stated in this
study. The researcher focuses the problem on the students’ reading comprehension and their interest that
will be correlated one another

 Significance of the study

 The teacher will know the students problems with their reading comprehension and their interest in
learning English.
    Definition of key terms
 Reading comprehension is the skill that a reader understands or gets the meaning of a text easily. In this
research, reading comprehension is the ability of students’ to understand reading text
  Interest in this research means the students attention, with emotion and felling.
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CHAPTER II
THEORITICAL AND EMPIRICAL REVIEW
 

 Reading Interest
 Hidi in Ebbers (2011) definite that reading interest is as “a unique motivational variable in reading, as well
as a psychological state that occurs during interactions between persons and their objects of interest, and it
is characterized by increased attention, concentration and affect”.
 Reading Comprehension
Cooper (1986:11) stated that Comprehension is a process in which the reader may construct meaning by
interacting with the text. In reading comprehension, a reader should have knowledge about understanding
the reading passage. The common questions on the passages are primarily about the main ideas, details,
and an inference that can be drawn from the passages.
 Empirical Review
 Empirical review is a review, which is the information and theories currently available concerning the
topic, and the historical background of the topic is reviewed.

 Hypothesis
 The hypotheses will be resulted in this research, such as:
 Alternative Hypothesis (Ha): There is a correlation between students’ interest in learning English and
their reading comprehension ability at grade eight of SMPN 4 Kubu
 Null Hypothesis (Ho): There is no correlation between students’ interest in     learning English and
their reading comprehension ability at grade eight of SMPN 4 Kubu.
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD

 Research Desigh
 This present study which dealt between Students’ Reading Interest and Their Reading Comprehension at
the Eight Grade SMP 4 KUBU
 Academic year 2021/2022 used correlational study as a the Research Desigh

 Population and Sample

 The population of this research was all of students at the eighth grade of SMPN 4 Kubu. There were eight
classes for grade eight of the students at this school. Each of class VIII consists of amount all of the
students Since of the number was large, it was necessary to have sample.
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Research  Instrument

       Test
 The researcher also used this instrument to identify the percentage of the students’ ability in reading
comprehension.
     Questionnaire
           It has been used by the researcher in identifying and knowing the percentage of students’ reading
interest
 Data Collection Technique
 There were some techniques in collecting the data for this research they were test
The form of the test was multiple-choice as a form of assessment in which the students were asked to
select one of correct answer among a, b, c, and d

 Data Analysis
 The data that were gained from test and questionnaire have been analyzed simultaneously with
quantitative data by using formula can be seen as follows:
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