THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SCHEMATA AND READING COMPREHENSION IN MAKING SENSE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to investigate whether there is any significant correlation between students’ schemata and their reading comprehension in narrative text; and to find out what type of schemata mostly used by students’ in comprehending narrative text. This research was a quantitative by nature. The research design used a co-relational design of ex post facto design. The samples of the research were selected by using simple random sampling. The data were collected by means of test and were analyzed by using SPSS at the significant level 0.01. Based on the data analysis, the result showed that there was a significant correlation between students’ schemata and their reading comprehension. The result showed that rxy is 0.841 with N 36, degree of freedom (df) N-2 to the real level  = 0.01 while rtable is 0.4238. Thus, rxy > rtable; meaning the correlation is significant. Therefore, the research hypothesis (H1) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. Another result found that content schemata is the most schemata type used by students’. The researcher assumes that the students who have good schemata also have good reading comprehension ability too.

Key words: narrative text, reading comprehension, schemata