The correlation between cognitive learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension at the seventh semester of English Education Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan

This research discussed about the correlation between cognitive learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension. The problems of this research were student do not enough vocabulary, they are lack of concentration when they read, and the last, most of them did not understand the text that they read and they do not have good strategy in reading, so they got stress and felt tired in reading comprehension. The aim of this research was to know is there significant correlation between cognitive learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension at seventh semester of English Department students in IAIN Padangsidimpuan. This research was designed by quantitative approach in correlational type. The population of this research were allseventh semester students of English Department in IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Then, the sample of the research 37 person from population, taken with random sampling by lottery. To collect the data, researcher used test (multiple choice ) for reading comprehension and questionnaire to know students’ cognitive learning strategy. To analyze the data, the researcher used ttest to test hypothesis. Based on the result of the research, the researcher showed the description of the data, and it found that the result calculating which was gotten the value of the correlation product moment rxy between variable x and y was-0.168. It means the correlation between cognitive learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension are in negative correlation. The correlation is negative correlation in the level of very low correlation. Next, for testing hypothesis it is known by the result of ttest. The result of ttest is -0.979, if it is compared with ttable, it is seen that ttest/count is smaller that ttable ( tcount = - 0.979 < ttable2704) in the significance 0.05. Based on the result, it is known that the null hypothesis is accepted and alternative hypothesis is rejected. It means that there is not significant correlation between cognitive learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension descriptive text seventh semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpun