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ABSTRACT KHAFIZATIL IQLIMA, Reg. No. 2030104031. Thesis title "THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN READING ENGLISH TEXTBOOK AND THEIR COMPREHENASION". English Teaching Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, State Islamic University (UIN) Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. Reading comprehension is influenced by various factors such as vocabulary understanding, decoding skill, reading fluency, language proficiency, learning preferences, environment, attitudes, teaching techniques, and motivation. Additionally, students showed varied participation levels in reading class, reading score, and motivation in reading English textbook. The purpose of this study was to find out the correlation between students' motivation in reading English textbook and their reading comprehension in second semester students of English Teaching department at UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar in 2023/2024 academic year. This research used a quantitative approach with correlational research design. The sample of this research was 42 students of the English Teaching department in 2023/2024 academic year. The sample was selected from the all population. In collecting data of students’ motivation in reading English textbook, the researcher used a questionnaire. It consisted of 44 items. The researcher also used a reading comprehension test to collect students’ reading comprehension data. The data analysis was conducted by using a Pearsons’ product-moment correlation formula to find the correlation between tow variables. The results showed that the highest score of students’ motivation in reading English textbook is 210 and the lowest score is 132. In the other side, the highest score in students’ reading comprehension is 62 and the lowest score is 14. Furthermore, it was found that the r_count (-0.099) is lower than r_table (0.312). It means there was no significant correlation between students’ motivation in reading English textbook and their comprehension.