THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ METACOGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TELKOM PEKANBARU

This research was correlational research which was aimed to know whether there was a correlation between students’ metacognitive knowledge and their listening comprehension or not. Subject of the research was the students at eleventh grade of SMK Telkom Pekanbaru and the object was correlation between students’ metacognitive knowledge and their listening comprehension. Population of the research was 250 students and the sample of the research was 38 students which was taken by using simple random sampling technique. To know the correlation between both variable, the researcher used pearson product moment by using SPSS 23 version. The result of the research showed that there was a significant correlation between students’ metacognitive knowledge and their listening comprehension. It could be seen as follows: score of coefficient correlation was 0.619 > 0.320 on standard significant 5% and on standard significant 1% was 0.413. It indicated that Ha was accepted which showed there was a significant correlation between students’ metacognitive knowledge and their listening comprehension. Sig. value (2-tailed) was 0.000 < 0.05, it indicated that there was a significant correlation between students’ metacognitive knowledge and their listening comprehension. Keywords: Correlation, Metacognitive Knowledge, Listening Comprehensio