The correlation between students’ reading interest and students’ reading comprehension at grade VIII SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan

This research was aimed to illustrate the correlation between reading interest and reading comprehension of students at grade VIII SMPN 8 Padangsidimpuan in the academic year 2018-2019. It was a quantitative research with correlational study. The population of the study was all of the students at grade eight with 276 students. By using Slovin Method and simple random sampling technique, there were 23 students implicated as samples in this research. The data were obtained by using two instruments which were questionnaire for reading interest and test for reading comprehension. rxy Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to analyze the data. From the result of the data analysis, it was found that there was a significant correlation between students’ reading interest and students’ reading comprehension with the rcount was (0.7168) higher than significance value rtable (0.7168 > 0.433). In a nutshell, reading interest had a correlation to reading comprehension achievement of students at grade VIII SMPN 8 Padangsidimpuan in the academic year 2018-2019