The Correlation among Students’ Reading Interest, Reading Comprehension, and Their Intralingual Translation Achievement

Abstract

Enthusiasm support a vital role in reading comprehension achievement of upper level readers, Reading interest is vital that one may encourage and maintain their interest of reading. Intralingual translation is defined as “rewording” and as an interpretation of verbal signs by means of other signs of the same language. This research is a quantitative research which has the purpose to find out whether or not there was significant correlation among students’ reading interest, reading comprehension, and their intralingual translation achievement. Furthermore, the population of the research is the second semester students of STIA SATYA NEGARA Palembang consisting of 120 students, from the population, 42 students were represented as the sample which was taken through simple random sampling technique. The instruments used were questionnaire for reading interest, multiple choice test for reading comprehension, and written test for intralingual translation. After having the result, then the data were analyzed by using multiple correlation in SPSS 20 Program for Windows. From the result of the data analysis shows that Ryx1x2 = 0.655 at the significance level of 0.05, and for the criteria of significant test is gotten Fcount (37.037) > Ftable (4.08). So, the result of hypothesis test shows that there is significant correlation among students’ reading interest, reading comprehension, and their intralingual translation achievement. It can be concluded that if students have high interest in reading, so they have good ability in comprehending text.

The Correlation Between Undergraduate-Students’ Reading Interest and Their Reading Comprehension

“…The results of the current investigation reveal a similar perspective in previous studies regarding the relationship between students' reading interest and reading comprehension (Rumaniah, 2018;Despita, 2020;Fitria, 2019). Therefore, in this study the author only focuses on elaborating the relationship between reading interest and reading comprehension for undergraduate students.…”

“…After the researcher conducted an analysis using the SPSS 25.0 version program to calculate the correlation, it was found that there was a significant positive relationship between students' reading interest and reading comprehension. In addition, it was found in the results of Pearson Product Moment that the relationship between reading interest and reading comprehension was categorized in a weak relationship Considering the finding of the correlation analysis, the current study has the same significance as the results of research conducted by Fitria (2019) and Despita (2020). Their study mentioned that it has a significant correlation between students' reading interest and reading comprehension.…”

“…Students who have a deeper interest in reading have more information and are able to understand the text better. In line with the research conducted by Despita (2020), she found that there is a high correlation between students' reading interest and reading comprehension, which is necessary for second semester students of STIA SATYA NEGARA Palembang. She claimed that if students are interested in reading, their ability to comprehend the text will be great.…”