CORRELATIONS AMONG STUDENTS’ READING STRATEGIES, ATTITUDES OF READING AND THEIR READING ACHIEVEMENT AT THE FOURTH SEMESTER OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF IAIN KERINCI ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/202

The purpose of this research was to know whether there were any correlation among students’ reading strategy, attitude of reading and their reading achievement. This research was conducted at the fourth semester of english department, state islamic institute (IAIN) of Kerinci that consisted of 33 students as the sample. The design of this research was quantitatif descriptive and the technique used in this research was a correlational technique. In collecting the data, the researcher distributed questionnaire to the respondents to assess students’ reading strategy and students’ attitude of reading. Meanwhile, students’ reading achievement was assessed by a test. In analyzing the data, the researcher used SPSS (Statistical Program for Social Science) 20.0. it showed that the value of significant correlation between X1+Y was 0.734. It means that there was significant correlation between students reading strategy and reading achievement. Then, the value of X2+Y was 0.281. It means that there was no sigificant correlation between variables reading attitude and reading achievement. Therefore, the value of significant correlation between students’ reading strategy, reading attitude and their reading achievement (X1+X2+Y) was 0.000 which was smaller than 0.05 (sig.<0.05). with the value of simultant test was Fcalculate = 21.196 > F table = 3.30. It can be concluded that there was significant correlation among three variables, those were students’ reading strategy, attitude of reading and their reading achievement at the fourth semester of the English department of IAIN Kerinci.