THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ READING HABIT AND SIMPLE PAST TENSE MASTERY TOWARD THEIR ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION NARRATIVE TEXT AT BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

Atika Maha, Putri and Adzanil, Prima Septy and Fitrina, Harmaini (2018) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ READING HABIT AND SIMPLE PAST TENSE MASTERY TOWARD THEIR ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION NARRATIVE TEXT AT BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed at finding out whether correlation between the third Year students reading habit and simple past tense mastery toward their ability in reading comprehension narrative text at. The hypothesis of this research was that there was a significant correlation between The Third Year Mastery Students Reading Habit And Simple Past Tense Toward Their Ability In Reading Comprehension Narrative Text at Bung Hatta University. The number of population was 52 students. That were distributed into two group; A and B. The researcher simple random technique. The researcher gathered the data by using questionnaire to identify students’ reading habit, a test to measure students’ simple past tense mastery and a reading test to measure students’ ability to comprehend narrative text. To analyze the data, the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and Double Correlation Formula. After analyzing the data, this study found that the values of coefficient of three variables was 0.98 and f- counted was 320.1 (α 0.05) and the degree of freedom (df) n-k-1 (18 ), value of f- table was 2.093 (see appendix 29). It means that f- counted (320.1 ) was bigger that f- table (2.093). Therefore, the relationship between three variables, simple past tense, reading habit and comprehend was significant. It means that the alternative hypothesis stating “is there any significant correlation between The Third Year Students Reading Habit And Simple Past Tense Mastery Toward Their Ability In Reading Comprehension Narrative Text at Bung Hatta University” was accepted. Learning from the result, there was a significant correlation between students’ simple past tense mastery and thei reading habit toward their ability in comprehension narrative text at Bung Hatta University studens. It can be concluded that the reading habit less influence students’ ability in comprehension narrative text, and reading habit can influence their ability in comprehension narrative text. Because of that, teachers should consider these both aspects in teaching and learning process, especially to reading narrative text.

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