DESMITA SARI, 11314202737 (2017) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ SELF ESTEEM AND THEIR READING ABILITY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF STATE ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ANDALAN PEKANBARU. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

This study was aimed at finding out the correlation between students’ selfesteem and their reading ability in understanding recount text at the eighth grade of State Islamic Junior High School Andalan Pekanbaru. From 270 students of the population which consisted of 8 classes, the writer took 159 eighth grade students of State Islamic Junior High School Andalan Pekanbaru as the sample. In SchoolBased Curriculum (SBC), especially in terms of reading, the eighth grade students are expected to have the ability to understand the meaning of functional text and simple essay in the form of descriptive and recount. After doing the observation, the writer found some problems; such as, some of the students did not have adequate ability to recognize language features of the texts, to understand the texts, to cooperate well with their friends in understandingthe texts, and to feel competent while responding to particular situations in teaching and learning process.The instruments of this research were test and questionnaire. The test was about recount text in which there were 20 items by using multiple-choice. The questionnaire consisted of 27 items. Descriptive analysis was used to know students’ self-esteem and their ability in understanding recount text whereas Pearson Product Moment Correlation Technique was used in order to measure the correlation between the two variables which quantified the strength as well as direction of the correlation. Based on the results, it was found that the students’ self-esteem was 81.29% while their reading ability in understanding recount text was 78.2. In terms of the correlation between self-esteem and reading ability in understanding recount text, the writer found that the sig.=0.000<a(0.05) and R Square value was 0.193. Based on the research findings, it could be concluded that there was a significant correlation between students’self-esteem and their reading ability in understanding recount text and the contribution size of self esteem was 19.3%. Key words : self-esteem, reading ability, and correlation.

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