THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING HABIT AND READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT OF 12TH GRADE STUDENTS OF MA. PP. QODRATULLAH LANGKAN
Abstract: The main objectives
of this study are to find out; 1) how is the students’ reading habit, 2) how is
the students’ reading comprehenaion achievement, 3) is there any significant
correlation between reading habit and reading comprehension of 12th grade
students of MA. PP. Qodratullah. The writer used descriptive quantitatif design
to describe the data. The population of the study was five classes of 12th
grade students of MA. PP. Qodratullah. The sample of this study was 168
students. The writer used questionnaire (Janthong, 2010) and reading test to
collect the data. The test was administered once as post-test. Before the
post-test was administered to the sample students, the validity and reliability
of the instruments were estimated. The result of the test were analyzed by
using Independent Sample T-test through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social
Science) 16.0. From the analysis, it was showed that the t-obtained was 0.309.
It could be concluded that there was no significance correlation between the
two variables since the t-obtained was higher than 0.05. The factors that
influnced this condition were; 1) the misperception of the students toward good
reading habits, 2) students preferred to read for pleasure (comics, newspapers,
sport magazines), 3) the students preferred to read for pleasure, while the
tests of this research were taken from reading for academic purpose materials.
However, building a good reading habit is essential to be recommended because
it is very important to develop the
students’ reading comprehension achievement.
Author: Agus Wahyudi
Journal Code: jppendidikangg150175
