A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING ATTITUDES AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine the students’ reading attitudes and to find the relationship between students’ reading attitudes and their reading comprehension performance. The methods used to analyze the data were questionnaires and the reading comprehension test applied to the third-year students at Thai Nguyen University of Information and Communication Technology. Besides, Pearson product-moment coefficients correlation was used to find out the relationship between students’ reading attitudes and their reading comprehension performance. The results from the study showed that students’ reading attitudes played an important role when learning reading skill and it is also stated that there was a significant relationship between students’ reading attitudes and their reading comprehension performance. From the findings, further recommendations were given to improve the students’ reading motivations and their reading comprehension performance.