The correlation between students’ reading speed and students’ reading comprehension of the first year students in SMAN 10 Bandar Lampung

Abstract

This research employed the correlation design. This quantitative research was aimed to find out the correlation between students’ reading speed and students’ reading comprehension. The subject of research was thirty five students at SMAN 10 Bandar Lampung. In collecting the data, the researcher used reading speed test and multiple choices test as the instruments. Reading speed test was used to know students’ reading speed and multiple-choice test was used to know their reading comprehension. The data from both instruments were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The result showed that there was a significant correlation between students’ reading speed and students’ reading comprehension since the significant correlation was 0.000 and the r value was 0.641. The value shows the strong correlation between reading speed and reading comprehension. Keywords: correlation, reading speed, reading comprehension.