THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION

MELINA, AYU PRATIWI (2023) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT By: MELINA AYU PRATIWI Mastering idiomatic expression is the ability of students to comprehend the element of idiomatic expression and have good accuracy of idiom comprehension increases during childhood and adolescence and improves in adulthood. Reading comprehension is a skill to get specific information from the text. This research aimed to find out the correlation between students’ mastery of idiomatic expression and their reading comprehension in the second semester of the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan in the academic year 2022/2023. The design of this research was Correlational Research. The population of the research was the second Semester students at tenth grade which consisted of 138 students in four classes. The sample of this research was 64 students. The technique for taking the sample used in this research was Cluster Random Sampling and the data were collected by the test of idiomatic expression and reading comprehension which consisted of 20 item for idiomatic expression and 20 items for reading comprehension after the validity of item tests.The researcher used SPSS 25.0 to analyze the data. Based on the data analysis, it was found that there was high correlation between the students’ idiomatic expression and the students’ reading comprehension at the tenth grade of SMAN 1 Way Pengubuan in academic year 2023/2024. The reason for high correlation because the result of computation by using SPSS obtained 0.986 and it was on high criteria. Based on this result it could be concluded that there was correlation between the students’ idiomatic expression and reading comprehension. Keywords: Correlation Research, Idiomatic Expression, Reading Comprehension.

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