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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
A. The Description of The Data
As mentioned in previous chapter, this study used survey method employing correlational study for investigating whether there is any significant relationship
between students’ anxiety and their English descriptive reading comprehension score or not.
To figure out and get the data of the study, the writer adapted anxiety questionnaire that designed by Saito et al. 1999 namely Foreign Language and
Reading Anxiety Scale FLRAS that contain 20 items and made another 20 items questionnaire with the same indicator as FLRAS in order to avoid invalid and
unreliable data. Further, the writer also used 20 items descriptive reading test in order to get students’ English descriptive reading comprehension score.
Moreover, the writer conducted the research using questionnaire and English descriptive reading comprehension test in VIII-1 that consists of 40 students.
Before the writer did her research, she did the validation of questionnaire and test in VIII-5 that only consists of 35 students at that time. Then, the writer analyzed
the data using Pearson Product Moment formula to know the relationship between variable X and Y.
1. The
Data of Students’ Anxiety Score and Students’ English Descriptive Reading Comprehension Score
The statistical calculation of 40 students’ anxiety score and their English reading comprehension were calculated. The total students’ anxiety score is 2264
see appendix and the students’ English reading comprehension got the total score
3085 see appendix. The result of anxiety score and English reading comprehension score can be seen as follow:
a. The Highest Scores: 1 Anxiety Scores
: 70
2 English Reading Comprehension Score : 95 b. The Lowest Scores
: 1 Anxiety Scores
: 40 2 English Reading Comprehension Score : 50
Furthermore, the mean score of anxiety score is 56.60 with the standard deviation is 7.655. Meanwhile the mean score of English descriptive reading
comprehension is 77.13 with 10.615 standard deviation. By using SPSS, the writer got the summary as follows:
Table. 4.1 The Summary Score of Anxiety X and Reading Comprehension Y
Parameter X
Y
Minimum Score 40
50 Maximum Score
70 95
Std Deviation 7.655
10.615 Mean
56.60 77.13
Median 58.00
80.00 Mode
59 85
Sum 2264
3085
2. The Relationship between Students’ Anxiety and Their English
Descriptive Reading Comprehension Score
To see how significance is the relationship between students’ anxiety and
their English descriptive reading comprehension, it is calculated through Pearson Product moment formula. Before calculating the data, here are the result of X and
Y scores: N
= 40 ∑X = 2264
∑Y = 3085
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