The Correlation between Students’ Reading Interest and Their Achievement in Reading Comprehension

The purpose of this study was to know whether or not there is a correlation between students’ reading interest and their achievement in reading comprehension at Department of English LanguageEducation UIN Ar-Raniry. This research used quantitative approach. The population of this research was the students of English Department UIN Ar- Raniry in the academic year of 2016/2017 and selected purposively. The members of sample in this research were 50 students. The data of this research were collected by using two kinds of instruments. The first is Questionnnaire, and the second is Document Analysis. The questionnaire was aimed at finding out the students’ reading interest, both individual and situational interest. The Document Analysis aimed to get the data of students’ academic achievement. Based on the result of data analysis By Pearson Product Moment formula, the researcher found that r = 0.49. It indicates that the correlation in this study is in the moderate correlation. Therefore, the alternative hypotheses of this research stating that there is moderate correlation between students’ reading interest and their achievement in reading comprehension at English education department of UIN Ar-Raniry was accepted.