A CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN INTERESTING TOPIC OF READING TEXT AND STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION

The objectives of the study are : (1) to find ; (2) vocabulary mastery and listening skill. The method used in this study was a correlation study. The population in this study was all the third semester of English Dept. IKIP PGRi Bojonegoro which consisted of two classes. The total number of the students was 84 students. The sample was 42 students taken by cluster random sampling technique. The instrument in collecting the data was questionnaire and tests. The questionnaire was used to collect the data of interesting topic of reading; while the objective tests were used to collect the data of students’ ability in reading comprehension. The techniques which were used to analyze the data were pearson product moment and multiple correlations. The results of this study show that (1) there is a significant correlation between the questionnaire scores’ of interesting topic and the scores of reading test (rx1y = 0.417 > rt is 0.304. The result of this research shows that interesting topic of reading are important variables for students’ ability in reading comprehension