managing and handling some psychological factors that can affect their comprehension.
In summary, from the discussion of the study above, it is implied that anxiety has insignificant relationship with students’ English descriptive reading
comprehension. It is assumed that another possible factors did. Thus, the teacher must find out appropriate teaching strategies in order to facilitate the students to
comprehend their reading comprehension more.
E. The Hypotheses Test
As described in previous chapter, if r
xy
r
table
means there is significant relationship between X variable and Y variable, H
a
is accepted and H
o
is rejected. Then if r
xy
r
table
means there is no significant relationship between X variable and Y variable, H
o
is accepted and H
a
is rejected. From the result above, the writer got r
xy
r
table
: 0.045 0.312 which means that H
o
is accepted and H
a
is rejected. In another words, there is no significant relationship
between students’ anxiety and their English descriptive reading comprehension.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
Based on the research findings, the writer concludes that the null hypothesis Ho is accepted and the alternative hypothesis Ha is rejected. It can be seen
from the result of r is 0.04, meanwhile the result from r
table
in 5 significance level is 0.312. Thus, r
xy
is lower than r
table
or it can be stated that r
xy
r
table
: 0.045 0.312. The result means that there is no significant relationship between
students’ anxiety and their English descriptive reading comprehension at the eighth grade students of SMP Islamiyah Ciputat in the academic year 20142015.
The conclusion shows that the higher students’ anxiety does not guarantee the lower students’ English descriptive reading comprehension.
B. Suggestion
Based on the previous conclusion, the teachers and the students do not pay much attention to anxiety in affecting the students’ English descriptive reading
comprehension score because of considering the insignificant relationship
between anxiety and their English descriptive reading comprehension. However,
it should not be simply ignored. As already stated earlier that anxiety is one of the factors that influencing students reading comprehension. It is important for
teacher to recognize students ’ anxiety in order to avoid students get difficulties in
comprehending reading text.
Therefore, it also suggested that the teachers have to encourage the students to read the books as frequently as possible, thus it can help them to increase their
ability to comprehend reading text.
