THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN IDENTIFYING KINDS OF TEXT STRUCTURE AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF ISLAMIC SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL OF RAMBAH SUB DISTRICT OF ROKAN HULU REGENCY

The title of this research is “The Correlation between students’ ability in identifying kinds of text structure and their reading comprehension at the second year students of Islamic Senior High School of Rambah sub District of Rokan Hulu Regency”. The research has three formulations of the problems that how students’ ability in identifying kinds of text structure is, how students’ reading comprehension is, and whether or not a significant correlation between students’ ability in identifying kinds of text structure and their reading comprehension. The objective of the research are to find out the students’ ability in identifying kinds of text structure, to find out students’ reading comprehension and to find out whether there is influence students’ ability in identifying kinds of text structure and their reading comprehension at the second year students of Islamic Senior High School of Rambah sub District of Rokan Hulu Regency. The research was carried out at Islamic Senior High School of Rambah sub District of Rokan Hulu Regency. The population of this research was 30 students and researcher took all sample. The technique used in taking the sample is total sampling technique. In collecting the data, the researcher used test for both of the variables in this research. In analyzing the data, the researcher used linear regression, in which to analyze how strength correlation between students’ ability in identifying kinds of text structure and their reading comprehension at the second year students of Islamic Senior High School of Rambah sub District of Rokan Hulu Regency. Based on the research findings, mean of students’ ability in identifying kinds of text structure was 52.5 with sum of score 1575. Mean of students’ reading comprehension was 43.5 with sum of score 1305. After analyzing the data, it got rxy, 0.817. it was bigger than coefficient value of product moment correlation with significancy 5% (0.361) and 1% (0.436). In other words, Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. It means that there is significant influence of students’ ability in identifying kinds of text structure and their reading comprehension at the second year students of Islamic Senior High School of Rambah sub District of Rokan Hulu Regency