Anis Nurul Hanifah Pengarang

The purpose of the research was to find out and analyze the positive correlation between the students’ reading motivation and their reading comprehension at tenth grade students of SMAN 6 Kota Tangerang in academic years 2018/2019. The population of the research was the whole classes of tenth grade students of SMAN 6 Kota Tangerang which consist of 378 students. Then, there were 79 students was selected as the sample of the research by using Simple Random Sampling. The data were collected by using MRP-R Reading Survey to test students’ reading motivation (variable X) and Short Answer Task to test students’ reading comprehension (variable Y). The result of this research can prove the hypothesis that showed there is correlation between students’ reading motivation and their reading comprehension. In other hand, if students’ reading motivation is high then their reading comprehension will also high. So, it can be concluded that there is positive correlation between students’ reading motivation and their reading comprehension at tenth grade students of SMAN 6 Kota Tangerang in academic years 2018/2019.