Abstract :
Based on the research, the objective of this study was to find out the
correlation between the students? reading maturity and their reading achievement of
the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Palembang. The method used was
descriptive quantitave method through correlation study. The data were collected by
using questionnaire of reading maturity and reading comprehension test. One hundred
seventeen students were involved in the study and the data were analyzed by test
analysis. The result showed that 3.4% students had high maturity, 68.3% students had
medium maturity, and 28.2% students had low maturity. Besides that, the result also
showed 5.1% students had excellent reading achievement, 34.2% students had very
good reading achievement, 25.6% students had good reading achievement, 32.4%
students had fair reading achievement, and 2.5% students had poor reading
achievement. Because of that there was correlation between reading maturity and
their reading achievement since the correlation coefficient or r-obtained (0.369) was
higher that r-table (0.1816), and p-output (0.00) was lower than (0.05). Besides, it
was also found that the students who had reading maturity had also good reading
comprehension. Therefore, the correlation between the two variables were found.
Key words: reading maturity, reading achievement