%A 1813042037 Siti Fauziah
%T THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS? READING HABIT AND
THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF NINTH GRADE
STUDENTS IN SMP NEGERI 3 NATAR
%X The aims of this research were to find out whether there was any significant
correlation between students? reading habit and their reading comprehension
ability and to find out which aspects of reading comprehension has the highest
correlation with students? reading habit. This study was a quantitative research
which applied ex-post facto design. The sample of this research was the ninth
grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Natar. 32 students of IX A class were taken as
samples through the use of purposive sampling. The instruments in this research
were reading habit questionnaire and reading comprehension test. Pearson
Product-Moment Correlation formula was used through SPSS 20.0 version to
analyze the data. The results of this research revealed that there was a significant
correlation between students? reading habit and their reading comprehension
ability since the r-value (0.802) was higher than r-table (0.349). Therefore, this
indicated that reading habit gives beneficial effect to students? reading
comprehension ability. The better students? reading habit, the better their reading
comprehension ability. This study also found out that understanding vocabulary
was the aspect of reading comprehension which has the highest correlation with
students? reading habit among five aspects of reading comprehension, it follows
that when students form a good reading habit, they will have better understanding
vocabulary that can improve their reading comprehension ability.
Keywords: Reading comprehension, Reading Habit, Correlation.
%D 2022
%C UNIVERSITAS LAMPUNG
%R 1813042037
%I FAKULTAS KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN
%L eprints65413