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The correlation among reading attitude, interpersonal intellegence and reading comprehension
Widyasari, Fibriani Endah1.
Reading is one of the crucial skills to be mastered by students in Indonesia. The genre text
approach is mostly implemented in each degree on formal education. This caused the redirection
of teaching learning process aim, that is from mastering four English skills become more
inclined in mastering reading skill. The curriculum sets the requirement of passing the final
examination to step up into higher grade with a good reading score. Reading becomes interesting
subject to be investigated by many researcher in Indonesia in order that teacher not only teach
reading by the surface purpose of text, but make them become meaningful reading teaching
learning process. Digging the inner factors to reading comprehension, this research aims are to
investigate the correlation among the reading attitude, interpersonal intellegence and reading
comprehension of English Education Study Program of Widya Dharma University
(UNWIDHA), Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia and how those factors can theoritically has impact
on creating meaningful teaching and learning of reading? This research implemented the
procedure of expose de facto reasearch. Questionaires of reading attitude and interpersonal
intellegence and a test of reading comprehension were administered to the sample (n=152).
Perason Product-moment correlation was used to analyse the data. The result of this study
showed that there was a significant correlation between the students’ reading attitude and their
reading comprehension. Students with positive reading attitudes strengthen their willingness to
read for more reading experience which consequently influenced their reading comprehension.
The students interpersonal intellegence also associated with their reading comprehension. This
intellegence brings reading to another level. The students who had more precentage of
interpersonal intellegence tend to insert emptahy or feeling in a text, then reading not only for
reading text but comprehending the text.
Affiliation:
- Semarang State University, Indonesia
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