The correlation between memory learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension at seventh semester of english education department IAIN Padangsidimpuan

The purpose of this research is to know the correlation between memory strategy and students’ reading comprehension at seventh semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research are students feel hard to express varied of words, the students are afraid to spell words correctly, the students are difficult in constructing a good sentence with appropriate word. Further, when the students read a print particularly the textbook, they feel difficult to comprehend it. This research was designed by quantitative approach and correlation research type. The population of this research were all of seventh semester students of English Department in IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Then, the sample of the research were 37 person from population. It was taken by using random sampling. To collect the data, researcher used test (multiple choice) for reading comprehension and questionnaire for students’ memory learning strategy. To analyze the data, the research used tcount. According to result of the research, the research showed the calculating of product moment by getting correlation coefficients rxy = -0.06 by looking the index of product moment correlation, the researcher found -0.06 was in very low correlation. It means that the correlation between students’ memory strategy and reading comprehension is very low. The result also showed that the correlation between variable X and Y is a negative correlation. Then, according to the calculation of tcount, the researcher found that tcount was -0.118 and dk = N-2 = 37-2 = 35, and at real α = 0.05, the researcher found that ttable was 2.704. It means that there was no significance correlation between memory learning strategy and students’ reading comprehension at seventh semester of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan because of tcount < ttable (-0.118 < 2.704),. So, Ha is rejected and Ho is accepted