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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
Based on the description of the data analysis and data interpretation, it can be concluded that reading habit is proven as one of the factors that influence
student’s reading comprehension. Based on the background of research, the theoretical framework, and result of the data calculation, it can be delivered some
points. First, students who develop practice of a good habit material such as reading amount of academic or non academic book and spent their amount of time on
regular routine of reading show more positive result on their reading comprehension. Second, family environments also contribute to create atmospheres
on how the students’ view reading positively or negatively. Third, habit of reading
at school also proves to be one of the effective tools to build a solid foundation on their reading comprehension. From the result of the statistical calculation, it can be
synthesized that the alternative hypothesis Ha is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. It means
that there is a strong relationship between the students’ reading habit and their reading comprehension at second grade of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat.
B. Suggestions
Based on the conclusion above, It can be delivered some suggestions go to:
a Teachers
1. English teacher should consider providing a comfort room for cultural literacy and completing plenty of good books in the class.
2. English teacher should give opportunity to the student to practice reading habit in and outside classroom in order to improve their reading
comprehension. 3. English teacher should be a good motivator to the students, and support
their interest in reading so that the reading habit programs will run effectively.
b Students
1. Student should improve their ability to absorb and comprehend different material abundantly in order to help them their academic
success. 2. Student should build a good reading habit in their daily life and
maintain it by continual reading activity so that the student can improve their reading comprehension skill.
3. Student should encourage themselves to adopt regular habit of reading and to promote reading habit to their classmates.
c Other Researcher
1. The result of this research hopefully can be used as a reference for further study on similar problems about reading habit and reading
comprehension at different level of students. 2. The result of this research hopefully can be used for further investigation
about several factors that influence students reading comprehension which have not investigated in this study yet.
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