THE EFFECT OF LEARNING DISCIPLINE AND LEARNING MOTIVATION TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING SKILL, AT SMA ISLAM AL-GHOZALI GUNUNG SINDUR BOGOR

Abstract

Reading Comprehension achievement  is the result obtained by students as an outcome from reading  activities. There are two factors that influence student achievement in reading,  internal  and external factors. Internal factors are factors that come from the internal of  students , ones of which are the  learning discipline  and learning motivation. This research aims to examine the effect of  learning discipline and learning motivation toward  Students’ Reading Skill. The population is taken from  ninth grade students of SMA Islam Al Ghozali Gunung Sindur Data collection techniques used interviews, questionnaire, and  reading comprehension test. The prerequisite tests conducted  include tests for normality, linearity,  and multicollinearity.  Test of the hypothesis in this study used one sample t test, simple correlation analysis, simple regression, multiple correlation, multiple regression, determinant coefficient, and F test. The results of the study show that there is significant effect  of  learning discipline and learning motivation together toward students reading skill,  which is proved by the value of  t-observe =7.792, is bigger then the value of t-table=5.49,  the value of sig = 0.001, which is smaller than 0.05.  Based on the research results, then all parties, both teachers and parents should pay attention and improve the discipline and motivation of student learning, so as to achieve optimal reading  achievement.