THE CORRELATION AMONG SELF-CONCEPT, READING ATTITUDE AND READING COMPREHENSION OF THE THIRD SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

This study is aimed to find out (1) whether or not there was a correlation between self-concept and reading comprehension, (2) whether or not therewas a correlation between reading attitude and reading comprehension, (3) whether or not there were correlations among self-concept, reading attitude and reading comprehension. The research design was correlational study. The population and sample of this research was the third semester students of English department at State Islamic University SulthanThahaSaifuddin Jambi. All of them were involved in this research, which consisted 113 students, because the researcher used total sampling. The data were collected by questionnaire to measure the self-concept and reading attitude and test to measure the reading comprehension. Next, the result of correlation between self concept and reading comprehension was r= 0,061 and categorized very weak. Then, the result of correlation between reading attitude and reading comprehension was r= - 0,092. It is negative correlation and categorized very weak. Last, the result of correlation among self-concept, reading attitude and reading comprehension were r= - 0,009. It is also negative correlation which means that dependent variable does not really affect the independent variable. Also, it is categorized very weak