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Tania Mitra Amanda: 2317110, “The Correlation between Students’ Metacognitive Awareness and Reading Comprehension in the Second Grade at SMK Negeri 2 Bukittinggi”, A Thesis, State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi,2021. This research was conducted since there were many problems in reading comprehension which were correlated with students’ metacognitive awareness in comprehending the text. Some students were passive in the reading process. Some students had applied their metacognitive awareness to reading comprehension, but not all of them were good at reading comprehension. Some students had limited vocabulary and it became an obstacle when they were reading. Some students were not aware of what strategies they already used in reading comprehension. Some students struggled to understanding long complicated senteces and long texts. The design of this research was correlational research. The instruments of this research were Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI) questionnaire for measuring students’ metacognitive awareness, and multiple choice test (narrative text, descriptive text, and recount text) for measuring students’ reading comprehension. The population of this research was all of the second grade at SMK Negeri 2 Bukittinggi which consists of 16 classes. The sample was 109 students taken by simple random sampling technique. The research was carried out in November 2021. To find out that the students’ metacognitive awareness and reading comprehension correlate or not, the researcher used the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The results of the research showed that there was a correlation between students’ metacognitive awareness and reading comprehension in the second grade at SMK Negeri 2 Bukittinggi. The researcher found that the coefficient of correlation between students’ metacognitive awareness and reading comprehension in the second grade at SMK Negeri 2 Bukittinggi was 0,285. There was a positive and significant correlation between students’ metacognitive awareness and reading comprehension in the second grade at SMK Negeri 2 Bukittinggi. It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. Based on the results of the research, it can be concluded that metacognitive awareness has a positive correlation to reading comprehension. It means that if the students are more aware of using their metacognitive awareness,their reading comprehension will increase. In conclusion, this research is done for finding the correlation between students’ metacognitive awareness and reading comprehension in the second grade at SMK Negeri 2 Bukittinggi.