A CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING STRATEGIES TOWARD THEIR ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION OF NEWS ITEM TEXT AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMAN 3 KERINCI ACADEMIC YEAR 202I/2022

The purpose of this research was to know whether there were any correlation among students‟ reading strategy and their ability in reading comprehension. This research was conducted at the eleventh grade students of SMAN 3 Kerinci that consisted of 72 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 was distributed questionnaire to the respondents to assess students‟ reading strategy. Meanwhile, students‟ reading ability was assessed by a test. In analyzing the data, the researcher used SPSS (Statistical Program for Social Science). From the hypothesis testing, it can be seen that: the correlation between reading strategies and reading ability at the good (high) level. It was indicated by the correlation score of 0.726 with correlation table of 0.394 (r-computed 0.726 > r-table 0.394). This can be said that there was good (high) correlation between students‟ reading strategies and their reading ability. Besides, based on the Cresswell opinion‟s the score of 0.726 is near than 1 it is mean that the two variables are strongly correlated