The correlation between students’ score of reading fluency and reading comprehension in English Teacher Education Department of Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya

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Hardianto, Puput Triwahyu (2019) The correlation between students’ score of reading fluency and reading comprehension in English Teacher Education Department of Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Reading fluency is a bridge between the two major components of reading – word decoding and comprehension as Rasinski stated. Being a fluent reader assign students to focus on the content in the reading, rather than focus on the decoding of every individual word. As the candidate of English teacher, the students of English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya should know the importance of reading fluency and its relation to reading comprehension because they will become a role model of the students in real practice teaching and also to develop a strategy in improving their student reading fluency and reading comprehension in the classroom. Therefore, this study is conducted to examine the correlation between those two variables. The sample of the study is 80 students calculated with Solvins’ formula from population of 100 students of third semester students of English Written class of English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya in 2017-2018 academic year. The data is analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social sciences (SPSS) version 16.0. Research statistical method used in this research is quantitative descriptive research using Pearson Product Moment Correlation to find the correlation between the independent variable (Reading Fluency) and the dependent variable (Reading Comprehension). The findings of this study shows that there was strong correlation between reading fluency and reading comprehension. The correlation between students’ reading fluency and reading comprehension are described by Pearson correlation = 0,708 and sig. (2-tailed) = 0,010. In other words, there is a strong correlation between reading fluency and reading comprehension. The findings from this study also add some support to automaticity theory that the higher level of reading fluency makes comprehending text easier and.faster.