THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTEREST AND THEIR READING HABIT TOWARD THEIR READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

WINDA, PURNAMA SARI and Khairul, Harha and Adzanil, Prima Septy (2016) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTEREST AND THEIR READING HABIT TOWARD THEIR READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the correlation between students’ interest and reading habit toward their reading comprehension of narrative text of the third year students English Department of Bung Hatta University. The number of population was 54 students. They were distributed into two classes; A and B. The researcher took 24 students as sample for try out and 30 students as sample for real test by using simple random sampling technique. The researcher gathered the data by using questionnaire to measure students’ interest and reading habit, and reading test to measure students’ ability to comprehend text. To analyze, the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and Double Correlation Formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that students’ interest and reading habit was classified as moderate, and reading comprehension of narrative text was also moderate. In addition, she found that the value of coefficient correlation between students interest and reading comprehension of narrative text was .42 and r-table was .361(α 0.05, (df)n-2), and the value of cooeficient correlation between reading habit and reading comprehension of narrative text was.02 and r-table was .361 (α 0.05, (df)n-2). She found that the value of coefficient of three variables was 3.821 and f- table was 3.35 (α 0.05) and (df) n- k-1 (27) (see appendix 31). Therefore, the relationship between three variables, students interest, reading habit and ability to comprehend was significant. Learning from the result, it can be concluded there was a significant correlation between students’ interest and reading habit toward their reading comprehension of narrative text of the third year students English Department of Bung Hatta University. Related to the conclusion, it is suggested to the lecturers improve students’ interest and their reading habit, to improve their reading comprehension.

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