The Correlation Between Students' Reading Strategies and Their Reading Comprehension Ability in Reading Academic Text

Abstract

This research was conducted to find out the correlation between students' reading strategies and their reading comprehension ability. It was also to find out the most category and types of reading strategies used by students and students' reading comprehension in reading academic text. The subject of this research was 5th semester students of English Education Study Program. There were 53 students as participants in this research. The method that used in this research was descriptive study. The data collected by distributed a questionnaire and TOEFL test. The data revealed that 49.06% students labeled as high strategy user category and 50.94% students labeled as moderate strategy category. Besides, the most types of reading strategies used by students were Problem Solving Strategy with the average score was 3.93. Furthermore, 5th semester students have average to good in reading comprehension. The correlation between students' reading strategies and their reading comprehension showed that the correlation coefficient was 0.51 and classified in “moderate level”