HUBUNGAN ANTARA KECEMASAN SISWA DAN PEMAHAMAN MEMBACA BAHASA INGGRIS SEBAGAI BAHASA ASING DI KELAS: STUDI PADA KURSUS BAHASA INGGRIS FULL BRIGHT DI MAKASSAR = THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENT’S ANXIETY AND READING COMPREHENSION IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: A STUDY AT FULL BRIGHT ENGLISH COURSE IN MAKASSAR

PEBRIANI KELLA. The Correlation Between. Student's Anxiety and Reading Comprehension of English as a Foreign Language in Classroom: A Study at Full Bright English Course Makassar. (Supervised by Abidin Pammu and Nasmilah).

This study aimed to determine what factors influenced students' Anxiety in reading English Foreign Language (EFL) and whether there was a correlation between the student's anxiety and reading comprehension of English in Full Bright English Course Makassar. This research employed a quantitative approach. The participants were 35 of 100 students at Full Bright English Course Makassar. To gather the data for the study, the researcher used a Foreign Language Reading Anxiety (FLRA) online questionnaire by Saito (1999) that was proposed by Ahmad et al. (2013). To test reading comprehension, The researcher used a book by Debora Phipps (2003). Both variables' results were analyzed using the SPPS application to find the correlation.
The research result showed that the mean score of the questionnaire about students'
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Anxiety was high at 34,3, and the score for reading comprehension was low at 91.,4.

In other words, Anxiety greatly influenced students' reading comprehension. Afterward, the result testing of those two variables indicated a 0,01 (2-tailed) value. This showed that Ho was rejected· and Ha accepted with co-efficient correlation r- computed (-453). It revealed a significant negative correlation between students' anxiety and reading comprehension in English Foreign Language reading. It was
concluded that the higher student's Anxiety, the lower their reading comprehension.

Keywords : students' anxiety, reading comprehension, English learning