KORELASI KETERAMPILAN MEMBACA PEMAHAMAN TEKS BERITA DENGAN KETERAMPILAN MENULIS TEKS BERITA SISWA KELAS VIII SMP NEGERI 17 PADANG

There are three objectives in this study as follows. First, this study describes the reading comprehension skills of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 17 Padang. Second, this study describes the writing skills of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 17 Padang. Third, this study was to analyze the correlation between reading comprehension skills of the news text and writing skills of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 17 Padang. This type of research is descriptive quantitative research. The research design applied in this study is a correlational relationship of two variables. The population in this study were students of class VIII SMP Negeri 17 Padang in the academic year 2019/2020. The samples in this study were 32 students. Samples were taken using simple random sampling or simple random sampling. The research instruments are objective tests and performance tests. Based on data analysis, three results were obtained from this study. First, reading comprehension skills of class VIII students of SMP Negeri 17 Padang with good qualifications with an average score of 81.80. Second, the skills of writing news texts for eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 17 Padang with good qualifications with an average score of 72.30. Third, there is a significant relationship between the relationship between reading comprehension skills and news text writing skills of eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 17 Padang which has a significant level of 95%. Based on the hypothesis test, it is accepted that the skills in writing news texts are also in sufficient qualifications (76-85%). Based on the results of the study, H₀ is rejected and H₁ is accepted because the test results prove that t count is greater than t table, namely 8.01> 1.63.