The Correlation Between Students' Critical Thinking Skills and Reading Comprehension in Undergraduate Students

Abstract

The study aimed at to find out the level of students’ critical thinking skills, the level of students’ reading comprehension, the classification of students' critical thinking skills on students' reading comprehension and finding out whether there was a significant correlation between students’ critical thinking skill and their reading comprehension. The research applied quantitative methods, particularly correlational study. The subjects were students’ English Education Study Program of fifth semester Universitas Negeri Makassar. The findings of the research showed that analysis using Pearson product moment revealed that critical thinking skill significantly correlated with reading comprehension (r= 0.754, p= 0.000). It was evidently revealed in this study that most of the students had high tendency in critical thinking while reading English text which include Interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation. Thus, the result indicated that there was a significant correlation between critical thinking skill and reading comprehension.