The correlation between students anxiety and students reading comprehension at eleventh graders in SMAN 2 Kotabumi North Lampung Academic year 2022/2023.

Abstract

Abstract: Reading is one of the most essential skills in language learning. However, many students face difficulties in comprehending reading material. Students' anxiety is one of the aspects that researcher assumes to be correlated with students reading comprehension at the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 2 North Lampung Academic Year 2022/2023.Therefore of this research was to determine whether there is a correlation between students' anxiety and students reading comprehension at the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 2 North Lampung in the Academic Year 2022/2023.This research is a quantitative research which used the correlation method. The population of this research is 260 students. The total sample of this research is 40 students when was taken using Proportional Random Sampling technique. In collecting data, the researcher used a questionnaire to measure students' reading anxiety and a test which was used to measure students' reading comprehension. The data analysis using Pearson Product Moment correlation, show that = 0.392. This value is greater than the = 0.312. It means that was rejected, and was accepted. From the result of significant test, it was found that = 2.554 and with dk = 38-2 by using significant level 5% is 2.024. So, it can be concluded that there is significant correlation between students anxiety and students reading comprehension at the eleventh grade of SMA Negeri 2 North Lampung Academic Year 2022/2023.