THE CORRELATION BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ) AND STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION SKILL IN THE FIRST GRADE AT MAN 1 TULUNGAGUNG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017

ABSTRACT Suryati, Ani. Student Registered Number. 2813133007. 2017. The Correlation between Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Students’ Reading Comprehension Skill in The First Grade at MAN 1 Tulungagung in Academic Year 2016/2017. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Faizatul Istiqomah, M.Ed. Keywords: correlation, IQ, reading comprehension skill Intelligence is one internal factor that influences the learning process. Reading activity in learning process requires the students’ thinking to achieve the goal of study. The thinking process can be seen from the students’ intelligence when face the problem of reading text. So, the process of reading comprehension involved the human intelligence to get the right information of the text. The formulation of this research is: “Is there any correlation between intelligence quotient (IQ) and students’ reading comprehension skill?”. Furthermore, the purpose of this research is to find out whether there is correlation between intelligence quotient (IQ) score and students’ reading comprehension or not. This research uses correlation design with quantitative approach. The population is this research is the first grade of MAN 1 Tulungagung totaled 341 students. The number of sample is 24 students determined using cluster sampling system. The variables were examined in this research is intelligence quotient (IQ) as independent variable (X) and students’ reading comprehension skill as independent variable (Y) also, because correlation study is a association relationship. The research instrument conducted through test and IQ’s documentation. While the method in data collection uses administering test, and asking the IQ’s documentation from the school. Technique of data analysis in this research in calculating correlation coefficient using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Formula Technique through SPSS 16.0 for windows. The result of this study showed a mean score of students’ IQ is 131.79 and a mean score of students’ reading comprehension skill is 83.00. This research has positive correlation. Based on the calculating correlation coefficient, this research has moderate correlation, because the correlation coefficient score is 0.510. Analysis of data through calculating using Pearson Product Moment Formula by SPSS 16.0 for windows, the data indicated that the sig. (2 tailed) score 0.011 is lower than level of significant (0.05) it means that the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and automatically the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It can be concluded that there is moderate correlation between intelligence quotient (IQ) and students’ reading comprehension skill of science acceleration class in the first grade of MAN 1 Tulungagung