The Correlation Among Critical Thinking Skills, Morphological Awareness, and English Reading Skill of The Sixth Semester TBI Students at IAIN Curup

Turangga, Randi and Hidayah, Jumatul and Edy, Sarwo (2021) The Correlation Among Critical Thinking Skills, Morphological Awareness, and English Reading Skill of The Sixth Semester TBI Students at IAIN Curup. Sarjana thesis, IAIN Curup.

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Abstract

This study was derived from theoretical foundations and the contextual phenomenon encountered among the sixth semester TBI students at IAIN Curup that indicated the possible relationships among critical thinking skills, morphological awareness, and English reading skill. To attain the study objectives, this quantitative study applied a correlation method. The population of this study was 53 sixth semester TBI students at IAIN Curup. The instruments were critical thinking skill questionnaire adopted from Honey, morphological awareness test adopted from Lisa Kay Maag, and the test of English reading skills adopted from the reading section of TOEFL ITP. The results of this study indicated that, first; there was a positive correlation between critical thinking skills and English reading skill of the sixth semester TBI students at IAIN Curup. Such a correlation was indicated by the statistical data of r xy (0.36660829) which was higher than r table (0.2746). Second, there was a positive correlation between morphological awareness and English reading skill of the sixth semester TBI students at IAIN Curup. Such a correlation was indicated by the statistical data of r xy (0.305629) which was higher than r table (0.2746). Third, there was a positive and moderate correlation between both critical thinking skills and morphological awareness and English reading skill. According to the data of statistical calculation, the obtained value of R was 0.437961742 which was categorized as moderate based on the scoring range. Because the value of R (0.437961742) was a positive value, or it went forward to (+1). All H0 hypotheses were accepted.

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