Abstract:
This research is correlation quantitative study about students’ reading speed
and their reading comprehension on narrative text at eleventh grade of SMA N 1
Mirit in the academic year 2016/2017. The objectives of the study are to describe
how fast the students reading speed and to describe how is the students reading
comprehension ability on narrative text at eleventh grade of SMA N 1 Mirit. And
also to describe the correlation between students reading speed and their reading
comprehension on narrative text at eleventh grade of SMA N 1 Mirit.
The population of the research is the eleventh grade students in SMA N 1
Mirit in the academic year 2016/2017. The sampling process was administered by
applying total sampling technique. There were 98 students of eleventh grade and
the researcher took 98 students as the sample. The researcher administered two
kinds of test, namely reading speed test and reading comprehension test. The
reading speed test was in spoken form and the reading comprehension was in
written form and used multiple choice questions. The instrument used for
measuring students’ reading speed and their reading comprehension was in related
or not.
The results of this study showed that the mean score of students reading
speed is 160.53 WPM. It means that students reading speed has slow category.
Then, students reading comprehension showed that the mean score is 67.04. It
means that the students reading comprehension has good category. Besides, the
hypothesis testing in this research showed that t computation is higher than t table
=4.6655> 1.988. It means that Ha accepted and Ho rejected so that it is could be
said that the correlation was significant. Besides, if the researcher consider that
between reading speed and reading comprehension have opposite direction,
meanwhile reading speed has slow category and reading comprehension has good
category, so it is cannot be said that the correlation is positive, but the correlation
is negative. Considering the explanation before, it means that there is negative
correlation between students reading speed and their reading comprehension on
narrative text at eleventh grade of SMA N 1 Mirit in the academic year
2016/2017.
