THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION IN DESCRIPTIVETEXT OF THE EIGTH GRADE IN THE SECOND SEMESTER AT SMP AMAL BAKTI JATIMULYO SOUTH LAMPUNG

MASRITA, BELLA PRIATINI (2024) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION IN DESCRIPTIVETEXT OF THE EIGTH GRADE IN THE SECOND SEMESTER AT SMP AMAL BAKTI JATIMULYO SOUTH LAMPUNG. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Students think and try to comprehend the reading text when they read. In reading a text the students not only read every sentence in the text but also need to comprehend the meaning of the text. This means comprehending skills cannot be separated from reading comprehension. The students had difficulty understanding the meaning and reading a long text such as descriptive text. It was because they have low motivation and do not find a good strategy for learning reading comprehension. The aim of the research was to find out the correlation between students’ critical thinking and reading comprehension at SMP Amal Bhakti Jatimulyo South Lampung in the second semester in the academic year 2023/2024. The research design in this study was quantitative which used correlational design. In collecting the data, the researcher used questionnaire and test. The population of the study were the eight�grade students of at SMP Amal Bhakti. The sample of the study consisted of 30 students. The Method of sampling in this study was cluster random sampling. The technique of collecting data of students’ critical thinking by using questionnaire. The technique of collecting data of reading comprehension was test. The technique of data analysis used the Pearson product moment correlation. The research findings show that the score of correlation coefficient obtained is 0.5332 which was in the interval of 0.40 – 0.599. Thus, the relationship was categorized into fair. Hypothesis alternative was accepted and hypothesis null was rejected. Critical thinking gave the contribution to the reading comprehension for the students at SMP Amal Bhakti Jatimulyo South Lampung on Academic years 2023/2024. In short, Critical thinking helped the students easily in understand the reading text. The educators need to pay attention more to the students related the critical thinking in comprehending the reading text. . Keywords: Correlation design, critical thinking, descriptive text, reading comprehension

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