The Correlation Between Students’ Metacognitive Awareness And Their Reading Comprehension

This research aimed to discover the students’ metacognitive awareness in reading comprehension, to investigate the students’ ability in reading comprehension and to find out the correlation between students’ metacognitive awareness and their reading comprehension. This research was correlational research. There were two variables used in this research. The first was students’ metacognitive awareness (variable X) and students’ reading comprehension (variable Y). The subject of this research was sophomore students at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty in academic year 2018/2019 and the sample of this research was 30 students. The writer used the random sampling technique in taking the sample. In collecting the data, the writer used questionnaire and students’ reading score. The data was analyzed by using Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient. After analyzing the data, students’ metacognitive awareness at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty is categorized in high level (69 – 104) and students’ reading comprehension at English Department of Tarbiyah Faculty is categorized in very good result (72 - 85). Afterwards, there was a significant correlation between students’ metacognitive awareness and their reading comprehension. The score of correlation coefficient 0.630 > 0.361 in significant level 5% and 0.630 > 0.463 with the degree of significance 1%, it means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected.