Abstract
Reading comprehension can be influenced by reading habit. This research is intended to identify the students’ ability in reading English. The main objective of this research is to recognize whether there is significant correlation between student’s reading habit in English and students’ reading comprehension ability identified through the use of students’ habit questionnaire and reading test with the text was took from passage in TOEFL test. These subjects who are involved at this research are second semester of English Department in Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda University. This research used quantitative research method. The research design of this study is correlational study. Reading test and questionnaire were used as the instruments; it was used to find out students reading comprehension (variable Y) and students reading habit (variable X) in order to get the data. Moreover, this research used simple random sampling technique. Population of this research was the second semester of English Department in Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda. The researcher took 38 students as the sample. In this study the researcher computed the normality test to measure the data have a normal distribution and linearity test to measure the data is linear. The data was analyzed using product moment correlation coefficient by SPSS version 22. The result of this research is 0.657. From the result of this research is 0.657 was higher than the significant degree 0.05 at Sig. (2-tailed). It can be concluded the Null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the Alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.
Highlights
Reading is an active process which consists of acknowledgement and comprehension skill (Patel and Jain, 2008)
This finding is similar to previous research done by Wulandari (2016) emphasized that good reading habit results better academic performance
Students who have good result in their reading comprehension test because the result of the test showed that students in good habit material have positive result on their reading comprehension
Summary
Reading is an active process which consists of acknowledgement and comprehension skill (Patel and Jain, 2008). Reading comprehension skill is one of keys that are associated with students’ achievement. Reading habit in learning process might determine the student reading comprehension because students could get the meaning of the text more effectively. Practicing reading as a habit will give advantages the students to become more informed and educated. Many students in reality still have the problem in comprehending the text they read. Some reasons why more students have become poor in reading comprehension. Beside that inadequate educational background is one of the difficulties that affected students’ reading comprehension. As habitual activity, reading activity takes an important role to build students’ character. Reading is an important habit that every student should have
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