The Correlation Between EFL Students’ Metacognitive Awareness and English Reading Comprehension

Nanda Dwiwahyuni, Fratiwi and Apriani, Eka and Septia Utami, Henny (2022) The Correlation Between EFL Students’ Metacognitive Awareness and English Reading Comprehension. Sarjana thesis, IAIN CURUP.

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This research aimed to discover the students‟ metacognitive awareness in reading comprehension, to investigate the students‟ ability in reading comprehension and to find out the correlation between students‟ metacognitive awareness and English reading comprehension. This research was correlational research. There were two variables used in this research. The first was students‟ metacognitive awareness (variable X) and students‟ reading comprehension (variable Y). The subject of this research was 8th semester students at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty in academic year 2018 and the sample of this research was all of students in 8th semester that is as many as 54 people. The writer used the total sampling technique in taking the sample. In collecting the data, the writer used questionnaire and reading test. The data was analyzed by using Pearson‟s product moment correlation coefficient. After analyzing the data, students‟ metacognitive awareness at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty is categorized in high level (101-150) and students‟ reading comprehension at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty is categorized in good result (66-75). Afterwards, there was a significant correlation between students‟ metacognitive awareness and their reading comprehension. The score of correlation coefficient 0.722 > 0.312 in significant level 5% , it means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected.

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