THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION OF THE SECOND YEAR AT SMPN 34 PEKANBARU

Based on the observation before, it was found that the second year sudents of SMPN 34 Pekanbaru got difficulties in reading comprehension such as some students were not able to identify the social function of the text, some students were not able to identify the generic structure of the text, and some others students were not able to identify language features of the text. The aim of this research was to find out whether there is or not siginificant correlation between students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and their reading comprehension of the second year at SMPN 34 Pekanbaru. This was a correlational research design, questionnaire was used to determine students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and the multiple choice test was used to determine their reading comprehension. The population of the reseach was all classes of the fisrt year students at SMPN 34 Pekanbaru which the total number was 240 students. Then, in determining the sample the researcher used simlple random sampling technique. The total number of the sample was 48 students. The researcher used Pearson Product Moment correlatition coefficient, the result of the analysis was calculated by SPSS 17.0 program. From the data analysis with the Pearson Product-Moment, the result obtained was r(40) = 0.779, p<0.01 to intrinsic motivation and their reading comprehension and than the result obtained was r(40) = 0.863, p