READING HABIT AND WRITING ABILITY: THE CORRELATION
Keywords:
correlation, reading habit, writing abilityAbstract
This correlational research aims at finding out the correlation between habit of reading and
writing ability of tenth grade students when learning narrative text. Some tenth grade students of
SMAK Harapan Denpasar was taken as samples (60 students from two classes). In collecting the data,
the researcher used five Likert scales questionnaire and writing narrative text test. The data collected
in this research were analyzed by Pearson product moment and t - testing using SPSS version 25 for
Windows. According to the result of the analysis and statistical calculation, it is found that r was
0.480. It also shows that the correlation between students reading habit and their ability of writing
narrative text of tenth grade lies between 0.401-0.600 which is medium level. Moreover, the data
shows significant correlation between both variables (t was 36.097). From the result, it can be
concluded that there is significant correlation between reading habit and writing ability. Furthermore,
the students and teachers should pay attention to the result of this reseach to increase the writing
ability by increasing the reading habit of the students. It can be done by choosing various interesting
and uptodate materials and strategies.
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