This research was aimed to describe the correlation between students’
metacognitive awareness and their reading comprehension in narrative text and the
influence of metacognitive awareness to reading comprehension in narrative text.
This research was the correlational research. There were two variables used in this
research. The first was X variable (students’ metacognitive awareness) and Y
variable (students’ reading comprehension in narrative text). The population of the
research was 25 students. Then in taking the sample, the writer employed cluster
random sampling. In collecting the data, the writer used questionnaire and test.
Questionnaire was used to determine the students’ metacognitive and test was used
to determine the students’ reading comprehension in narrative text. Pearson Product
Moment and regression analysis were used to find out the correlation and influence
between two variables. The result showed that there was significant correlation
between metacognitive awareness and students’ reading comprehension in narrative
text with r 0.786 > r table 3.961.Besides that, there was also significant influence of
metacognitive awarenss and students’ reading comprehension in narrative with
57.6%. This study could have implications for English teacher, students, and next
researcher.
A. Conclusions
Based on the result of the research, the researcher concluded that there was a
significant correlation between metacognitive awareness and students’ reading
comprehension in narrative text at the eleventh garde students’ of SMAN 3 Bone
since the correlation coefficient (0.759) was higher than r-table (0.3961), and p
(.000) was lower than (.05) The category of correlation was strong. Additionally, the
linear regression analysis showed that student’s metacognitive awareness (57.6%)
significantly influenced their reading comprehension in narrative text. The finding of
the present also have implications for students that better their awareness of
metacognitive in reading is, the better their reading comprehension will be.
B. Suggestions
1. For the students
a. The students of SMAN 3 Bone have to prepare themselves to improve
their metacognitive awareness, because it is so important especially for
reading comprehension in narrative text.
b. The students should realize that the use of metacognitive while reading is
important. It will help them to achieve their reading comprehension.
c. The students should have great motivation in learning English. They
must change their mind that reading comprehension is not difficult.
When the students can understand the text well, they will get a lot of
benenfit from the reading activity.
2. For teacher
a. The teacher should encourage the students’ to improve their
metacognitive awareness.
b. The teacher must give more exercise to the students in order that they can
apply their metacognitive awareness.
3. For other researcher
The researcher realizes that the result of this research is still far from
being perfect. There are still many weaknesses dealing with the theory or the
other because of the limited skill of the researcher. The researcher also
understands that this research paper only gives a little contribution to teach
reading. The other researcher perhaps can develop this research with their
own material and other method which are suitable for students in order to
give new contributions in world of education.

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