THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING ATTITUDE AND THEIR ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF MTs NEGERI 7 KERINC

1. The students’ ability in treading comprehension of narrative text was at low ability or (54.8%). 2. The students’ have medium reading attitude, it can be seen from the total number of students who have medium reading attitude are 26 students or 83.8% from 31students. 3. The correlation between students’ Attitude of Reading and Their Reading Ability at seventh grade of MTsN 7 Kerinci The researcher found the correlation of the students’ attitude of reading (X)and their reading ability (Y) the researcher used the interpretation with table of : 0,611, N = 31, = 0,05 and df = 29. Looking at the table of significance of 0,05 in rtable = 0.367, and 0,01 = 0.470 because rxy on the table of significance of 0,05 is bigger than rtable (0.611 > 0.367), so on the table degree of significance of 0,05 the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. So, it means there is a strong enough correlation between variable X and variable Y