Ayu Novianti Pengarang

This research aimed to find out whether or not significant correlation of understanding the type of text (narrative, descriptive, and recount text) on students reading comprehension at 11th grade at SMAN 25 KabupatenTangerang in academic year 2018/2019. This research use multiple choice to get the data. Based on the result of the research conclusion there are not significant correlation between understanding the type of text (narrative, descriptive, and recount text) on reading comprehension. The collected the data were analyzed by using IBM statistical SPSS verson 24. To analyze the result test, the writer used kendall’stau_b because the data of understanding the type of text and reading comprehension are not normaly distributif (the significant is 0.167. If significant > 0.05) it can be concluded that there is no significant correlation of understanding the type of text (narrative, descriptive, and recount text) on students reading comprehension.