KORELASI HAFALAN AL-QUR’AN TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN MEMBACA TEKS BAHASA ARAB

Al-Qur’an is the holy book of Muslims in Arabic. A growing phenomenon in society shows that learning Arabic is still considered difficult and complicated. However, then there is an assumption or paradigm that students who memorize the Al-Qur'an definitely have Arabic language skills, especially in reading Arabic texts and the results are guaranteed to be good, this is in accordance with data obtained from observations of Tahfidz students at Sirojul Ulum Islamic Boarding School Jember. The aim of this research is to ascertain the connection between students' memorization of the Al-Qur'an and their proficiency in reading Arabic literature. The form of this research is correlational research, which is quantitative in nature and the subjects used in this research were students of the Sirojul Ulum Islamic boarding school, especially students of tahfidz Al-Qur’an. Tests were used to acquire the data. Information regarding the pupils' memorizing of the Qur'an was gathered through the tests. The results of this research show that the correlation coefficient between the ability of Sirojul Ulum Tegal Waru Mayang Jember students in reading Arabic texts and memorizing the Al-Qur'an has a significance level of >0.05 with a calculated r-count of 0.912. This means that there is a positive correlation between the two objects studied or Ha is accepted because the r count is close to 1. This research category has a strong level of correlation, so it can be concluded that if memorization of the Al-Qur'an increases, the quality of Arabic text reading skills will improve.