habit and reading comprehension was on high correlation. The result can be seen in the following table:
Table 4.4 Result of Correlation Product Moment
Reading Habit Reading
Comprehension s
Reading Habit Pearson Correlation
1
,779
Sig. 2-tailed ,000
N 40
40 Reading Comprehensions
Pearson Correlation ,779
1 Sig. 2-tailed
,000 N
40 40
Table 4.5 The Level of Correlation
1
Product Moment r Interpretation
0.00 0.20
0.20 0.40
0.40 0.70
0.70 0.90
0.90 1.00
Very low correlation Low correlation
Moderate correlation High correlation
Very high correlation
B. Data Interpretation
After the writer calculated the formula of product moment, it showed that the correlation index between students’ reading habit and their reading
comprehension score was on high correlation. The correlation index r
xy
is 0.779 is in the interval 0.70
– 0.90. It means that the relationship between students’ reading habit and their reading comprehension was on high correlation.
The result of calculation by applying SPSS version 21 described as follows. It obtained R
xy
= 0.779 than t
table
0.320. The degree of freedom df is 40 – 2
=38 in the table significant of 5 it is obtained 0.320. The assumption of hypothesis R
xy
is higher than r
t
R
xy
r
t ,
so the null hypothesis Ho is rejected and the alternative
1
Anas Sudjono, Pengantar Statistika Pendidikan, Jakarta: PT. Raja Grafindo Persada, 2004, p. 193.
hypothesis Ha is accepted. The writer concluded that there was a high relationship between the students’ reading habit X and their reading comprehension Y at the
second grade of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat. From the first hypothesis, it stated that there was a positive relationship
between reading habit and students’ reading comprehension. The result above means that there was a relationship between students’ reading habit and their reading
comprehension at the second grade of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat. In academic field, Reading habit help the students to speak with confidence, they always perform better
in front of the class. Reading habits also help the students to build an expertise and intelligent in many subjects especially English. They easily understand content
material without any obstacles. Pursuing reading habit helps the students to improve analytical skill in comprehension task. They automatically predict the error in the
passage; and build word order precisely and accurately. In relation with the relationship of
students’ reading habit to their reading comprehension; Ifshand and Nadia, already explained about it. They stated that
reading habits have a significant effect on students’ academic achievement. Gilbert
and Rollick also added that good reading habit significantly enhance academic performance to the students. Students who posed a good reading habit demonstrated
a positive effect in their academic performance. Creemers strengthened in a similar way that only through reading habit the students will have a high confidence in
learning English. Based on the theory above it can be said that reading habits give beneficial effect
to student’s academic performance, especially in their reading comprehension.
In the discussion here, relevant studies also pointed the same positive relationship between reading habit and students’ reading comprehension. First, a
research was done by Aisha Riaz , the title of his research was “Relationship of Study
Habit with Educational Achievement”. Second, the similar research had done by Ifa Riana, a student of Sebelas Maret University, by the title
“Correlational Study between translation ability, habit of watching movies, and reading comprehension
.” The result showed that there was a
positive correlation between students’ translation ability, habit of watching movies, and reading comprehension. Further, a same result
