READING HABITS AND THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AMONG EFL LEARNERS ADDIN RO’SY AULIA
READING HABITS AND THE STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY
AMONG EFL LEARNERS
ADDIN RO’SY AULIA
Universitas Islam Lamongan
Abstract:
This study aims at investigating the students’ reading habits among EFL Learners.. The researcher uses
Descriptive Correlation Design to investigate the existence or non existence of the relationship between
reading habits and the students’ writing ability. Based on the research findings, the mean of total score of
the students’ reading habits is 76.27. It shows that the quality of the students’ reading habits among EFL
learners is “Good”. Meanwhile, the mean of total score of the students’ writing ability is 77.79. It shows
that the quality of the students’ writing ability EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 is
“Good”. (3) the result of r-value is 0.41. It shows that the correlation between reading habits and the
students’ writing ability among EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 is “Quite High
Correlation”. The r-value (0.41) ≥ r-table (0.317) proves that Ha is accepted, so there is significant
correlation between reading habits and the students’ writing ability among EFL learners of UNISLA.
Keywords: reading habits, students’ writing ability.
Introduction
In the educational world especially in
English teaching, reading is one of the parts in
English skill. It must be mastered by the
student in order to understand and comprehend
English text. English subject provided many
kinds of text. Those texts must be understood
by
the
students
through
reading
comprehension. In reading comprehension
activity, the students are demanded to
comprehend the reading text. However, it is
not easy to understand the reading text because
the most of the students found many
difficulties in understanding the reading text.
The students must increase their reading
activity in order to get many experiences in
understanding and comprehending the reading
text. The students’ reading habit is one of the
behaviors that must be increased by the
students. According to Arican, et. al as quoted
by Ayhan, et. al (2013), The habit of reading is
defined as practicing the act of reading
throughout life, constantly and critically as a
result of perceiving reading as a need and a
source of pleasure.
Reading habit is one of the behaviors
that will affect the students’ information
mastery. If the students have many times in
reading, so the students will have more
knowledge and master much information
around the world. On the other hand, if the
students have high reading habit, the students
will have high competence in the writing skill
because the students’ reading habit will make
them easy to deliver their opinion or ideas
about a topic into a written text in the writing
activity because through reading habits that
started in the earlier stage or in the age of
childhood, the students will have many
knowledge and information about everything
that read in their growing although it is
through reading a book or experience in their
lives. It means that the reading habits will
affect the students’ writing skill.
The point of writing is that writing
what is in mind and making the readers
understand what has been written. So, Writing
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is a very important capability for being owned
by students, writing is also an excellent
communication tool. Writing is one of the
English skills that involved many components
in English, for example the grammar or
structure, punctuation, coherence, cohesion,
and etcetera. Writing is a complex skill
because it is involved all of the English
components.
However, the students’ get some
difficulties in writing something especially in
English. Writing is one of the English skills
that require enough time to express the idea or
opinion in general classification to the specific
description. It means that the students have to
have more knowledge and more material, so
the students can express their idea in writing
something. One of the habits that will help the
students are easy in writing to express their
idea is by increasing their reading habits.
Review of Related Theories
The Concept of Reading Habits
Soedarso (2006) states that reading is
the complex activity that involved the number
of activities. At the age of childhood, the
children learn to know words by words, spell
those words and differ those words by another
words. The children have to read aloud, spell
each word completely in order to know
whether the reading is true or not. The children
are taught reading by structural, from the left
to right, and observe each word on the
structure that available. The limitation has not
to do manipulation the word meaning and the
word structure in the sentences. The reading
habits that carried out by the children on the
age of childhood will be continued to the
adult. The adult can know the phrase,
sentence, and the structure of idea so the
reading habits that carried out on the age of
childhood is not to do anymore.
In the educational word especially in
English teaching, reading is one of the parts in
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English skill must be mastered by the student
in order to understand and comprehend
English text. English subject provided many
kinds of text. Those texts must be understood
by
the
students
through
reading
comprehension. In reading comprehension
activity, the students are demanded to
comprehend the reading text. However, it is
not easy to understand the reading text because
the most of the students found many
difficulties in understanding the reading text.
The students must increase their reading
activity in order to get many experiences in
understanding and comprehending the reading
text. The students’ reading habit is one of the
behaviors that must be increased by the
students. According to Patell and Praveen
(2010) reading habits not only help the student
to get knowledge and wisdom from the
cultural of heritage, but are also very helpful in
passing for leisure period. Leisure hours are
not only, during the active period of life but
also, more significantly, during the period
when man has retired from active life.
Therefore the learner of English must know
reading English. The education of a child is
imperfect, unless he is supplied every things
needed with the ability of reading.
In addition, according to Arican, et. al
as quoted by Ayhan, et. al (2013), The habit of
reading is defined as practicing the act of
reading throughout life, constantly and
critically as a result of perceiving reading as a
need and a source of pleasure.
The Nature of Writing
Some people considered that writing is
difficult thing to do. Writing is not simply skill
to transfer a spoken language into a readable
text, but it also requires some particular
aspects to convey a message into piece of
paper clearly. Writing is the language use to
express and to communicate with others. It
must be difficult without practicing regurally.
Reading Habits and The Students’ Writing Ability
Among EFL Learners - Addin ro’sy aulia
The point of writing is that writing
what is in mind and making the readers
understand what has been written. So, Writing
is a very important capability for being owned
by students, writing is also an excellent
communication tool.
The point of writing is that writing
what is in mind and making the readers
understand what has been written. So, Writing
is a very important capability for being owned
by students, writing is also an excellent
communication tool. Writing is one of the
English skills that involved many components
in English, for example the grammar or
structure, punctuation, coherence, cohesion,
and etcetera. Writing is a complex skill
because it is involved all of the English
components.
The Correlation between Reading and Writing
Patel and Praveen (2008) state that thus
reading and writing reinforce each other and
consolidate the aural-oral learning. The
teaching and speaking, provides for greater
variety of classroom activity for both teacher
and students than a purely aural-oral program.
According to Jakobs & Perrin as
quoted by Gruyter (2008) reading also takes
place in processes, predominantly purposeful
processes that create mental representations
from physical representations. In written
communication, reading is the counterpart of
writing: people perceive an offer of
communication by reading a text. Reading can
occur in isolation from writing, but
communicative reading processes often
include minor writing processes, such as when
people make notes about a text they are
reading. Conversely, every writing process
includes reading processes, since people
always read parts of what they have just
written.
The point of writing is that writing
what is in mind and making the readers
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understand what has been written. So, Writing
is a very important capability for being owned
by students, writing is also an excellent
communication tool. Writing is one of the
English skills that involved many components
in English, for example the grammar or
structure, punctuation, coherence, cohesion,
and etcetera. Writing is a complex skill
because it is involved all of the English
components.
However, the students’ get some
difficulties in writing something especially in
English. Writing is one of the English skills
that require enough time to express the idea or
opinion in general classification to the specific
description. It means that the students have to
have more knowledge and more material, so
the students can express their idea in writing
something. One of the habits that will help the
students are easy in writing to express their
idea is by increasing their reading habits.
The Influence of Reading Habits to the
Students’ Writing Ability
According to Patell and Praveen (2010)
reading habits not only help the student to get
knowledge and wisdom from the cultural of
heritage, but are also very helpful in passing
for leisure period. Leisure hours are not only,
during the active period of life but also, more
significantly, during the period when man has
retired from active life. Therefore the learner
of English must know reading English. The
education of a child is imperfect, unless he is
supplied every things needed with the ability
of reading.
Reading habit is one of the behaviors
that will affect the students’ information
mastery. If the students have many times in
reading, so the students will have more
knowledge and master much information
around the world. On the other hand, if the
students have high reading habit, the students
will have high competence in the writing skill
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because the students’ reading habit will make
them easy to deliver their opinion or ideas
about a topic into a written text in the writing
activity because through reading habits that
started in the earlier stage or in the age of
childhood, the students will have many
knowledge and information about everything
that read in their growing although it is
through reading a book or experience in their
lives.
Method
The descriptive design describes the
current status of the subjects in the study. The
correlation study carries out to investigate the
existence or non existence of the relationship
between the variables of the study in order to
make predictions or suggestions. The design of
the correlation study can be seen as follows:
Variable
X
Where:
Variable X
Variable Y
Symbol
Variable
Y
: the Students’ Reading Habits
: the Students’ Writing Ability
: the
Correlation
between
Reading Habits and the
Students’ Writing Ability
In this study, the population is all of the
students of the second semester of English
Department in Lamongan Islamic University
in the academic year 2014/2015. The
population consists of two class, namely II A
and II B class. The total member of population
is 68 students. The researcher uses all of the
subjects on the population as the sample of this
study. It means that the researcher uses II A
and II B as the sample of this study. II A class
consists of 25 students and II B class consists
of 43 students, so the total of sample is 68
students. The researcher takes the sample by
using quota sampling because the population is
less than one hundred respondents, so the
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sample that used is all of the respondents on
the population.
Findings and Discussion
The Result of the Students’ Reading Habits of
“A” Class at the Second Semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the Academic Year
2014/2015
Based on the calculation above, the
researcher got the total score of overall
students’ reading habit was 5187 and mean
score was 76.27. It was located on the Good
category. It meant that the students’ reading
habit at the second semester of English
Department of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 was “Good”.
The Result of the Students’ Writing Ability
The researcher used documentation to
know the students’ writing ability during the
writing course in the teaching and learning
process. The documentation is in the form of
students’ report mark for several meetings for
March up to May. The researcher got the value
of the students’ writing ability by taking
consultation with the writing lecturer, Uzlifatul
Masruroh, M.Pd. The researcher also asked
about the assessment of the writing in order to
measure the students’ writing ability, the
researcher got the data that the assessment
criteria used in the writing ability is PortfolioBased Assessment.
The Result of the Students’ Writing Ability of
“A” Class at the Second Semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the Academic Year
2014/2015
In this study, the researcher found the
scores of the students’ writing ability on “A”
class at the second semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015. After gaining the result of the
students’ writing ability, the researcher
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determined the quality of the students’ writing
ability on “A” class by using the scale criteria
that offered by Purwanto. Then, the researcher
got the result of the quality of the students’
writing ability on “A” class as follows:
Based on the calculation above, the
researcher got the total score of overall
students’ writing ability was 1941.25 with the
mean of total score was 77.65. It was located
on the Good category. It meant that the
students’ writing ability on “A” class at the
second semester of English Department of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
“Good”.
The Result of the Students’ Writing Ability of
“B” Class at the Second Semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the Academic Year
2014/2015
In this study, the researcher found the
scores of the students’ writing ability on “B”
class at the second semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015. After gaining the result of the
students’ writing ability, the researcher
determined the quality of the students’ writing
ability on “B” class. Based on the calculation
above, the researcher got the total score of
overall students’ writing ability was 3348.5
with the mean of total score was 77.87. It was
located on the Good category. It meant that the
students’ writing ability on “A” class at the
second semester of English Department of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
“Good”.
Discussion
The researcher presented the discussion
to answer the problems of this study. The
result of the students’ reading habits among
EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 showed that the mean ( ) of the
total score of the students’ reading habits
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among EFL learners of UNISLA at the second
semester was 76.27 with the total score (∑x)
was 5187 . The mean of total score of the
students’ reading habits was 76.27 was located
on the scale 76-85. It meant that the quality of
the students’ reading habits among EFL
learners of UNISLA at the second semester in
the academic year 2014/2015 was “Good”.
The researcher correlate the result of
the students’ reading habits among EFL
learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 with the explanation that stated by
Mrs. Tiara Retno, a reading lecturer through
open questionnaire on 4th of July 2015thatthe
quality of overall the students’ reading habits
was “Good”. It showed that it relevant
between Mrs. Tiara’s statement and the data
analysis of the students’ reading habits among
EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015.
The result of data analysis of
documentation of the students’ writing ability
among EFL learners of UNISLA in the
academic year 2014/2015 showed that the
mean ( ) of the total score of the students’
writing ability among EFL learners of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
77.79 with the total score (∑y) was 5829.75.
The score of the students’ writing ability
among EFL learners of UNISLA in the
academic year 2014/2015 was 77.79 was
located on the scale 76-85. It meant that the
quality of the students’ writing ability among
EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 was “Good”.
The researcher related the result of the
students’ writing ability among EFL learners
of UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015
with the explanation that stated by Mrs.
Uzlifatul Masruroh, English writing lecturer
through open questionnaire on 5h of July 2015
that the quality of overall the students’ writing
ability was “Good”. It showed that it suited
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between Mrs. Uzlifatul Masruroh’s statement
and the data analysis of the students’ writing
ability among EFL learners of UNISLA in the
academic year 201/2015.
The result of r-value that calculated by
using Pearson Product Moment showed that
the result of r-value was 0.41. It meant that rvalue (0.41) was located on the r-scale 0.41 –
0.70. It showed that the correlation between
reading habits and the students’ writing ability
at the second semester among EFL learners of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
“Quite High Correlation”.
Based on the value of “r” was 0.41
which the r-table 0.317 where significant level
(α) was 0.01 and degree of freedom (df) was
66. It showed that the r-value was higher than
r-table, in the significant level 1%. The
significant level 1% was taken because the
sample of this study was more than 30
students. The researcher concluded that Ha
was accepted and Ho was rejected. It meant
that there is significant correlation between the
reading habits and the students’ writing ability
among EFL learners of UNISLA in the
academic year 2014/2015.
Conclusion
The students’ reading habits at the
second semester among EFL learners of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
“Good”. It can be seen on the mean ( ) of the
total score was 76.27 with the total score (∑x)
was 5187. The mean of total score of the
students’ reading habit was 76.27 was located
on the scale 76-85. The students’ writing
ability among EFL learners of UNISLA at the
second semester in the academic year
2014/2015 was “Good”. It can be seen on the
mean ( ) of the total score was 77.79 with the
total score (∑y) was 5289.75. The score of the
students’ writing ability was 77.79 was located
on the scale 76-85. The correlation between
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students’ reading habits and the students’
writing ability at the second semester among
EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 was “Quite High Correlation”. It
can be seen on the result of r-value was 0.41. It
meant that r-value (0.41) was located on the rscale 0.41 – 0.70 (quite high category). The rvalue (0.41) ≥ r-table (0.317) proved that Ha
was accepted, so there was a significant
correlation between reading habits and the
students’ writing ability among EFL learners
of UNISLA.
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AMONG EFL LEARNERS
ADDIN RO’SY AULIA
Universitas Islam Lamongan
Abstract:
This study aims at investigating the students’ reading habits among EFL Learners.. The researcher uses
Descriptive Correlation Design to investigate the existence or non existence of the relationship between
reading habits and the students’ writing ability. Based on the research findings, the mean of total score of
the students’ reading habits is 76.27. It shows that the quality of the students’ reading habits among EFL
learners is “Good”. Meanwhile, the mean of total score of the students’ writing ability is 77.79. It shows
that the quality of the students’ writing ability EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 is
“Good”. (3) the result of r-value is 0.41. It shows that the correlation between reading habits and the
students’ writing ability among EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 is “Quite High
Correlation”. The r-value (0.41) ≥ r-table (0.317) proves that Ha is accepted, so there is significant
correlation between reading habits and the students’ writing ability among EFL learners of UNISLA.
Keywords: reading habits, students’ writing ability.
Introduction
In the educational world especially in
English teaching, reading is one of the parts in
English skill. It must be mastered by the
student in order to understand and comprehend
English text. English subject provided many
kinds of text. Those texts must be understood
by
the
students
through
reading
comprehension. In reading comprehension
activity, the students are demanded to
comprehend the reading text. However, it is
not easy to understand the reading text because
the most of the students found many
difficulties in understanding the reading text.
The students must increase their reading
activity in order to get many experiences in
understanding and comprehending the reading
text. The students’ reading habit is one of the
behaviors that must be increased by the
students. According to Arican, et. al as quoted
by Ayhan, et. al (2013), The habit of reading is
defined as practicing the act of reading
throughout life, constantly and critically as a
result of perceiving reading as a need and a
source of pleasure.
Reading habit is one of the behaviors
that will affect the students’ information
mastery. If the students have many times in
reading, so the students will have more
knowledge and master much information
around the world. On the other hand, if the
students have high reading habit, the students
will have high competence in the writing skill
because the students’ reading habit will make
them easy to deliver their opinion or ideas
about a topic into a written text in the writing
activity because through reading habits that
started in the earlier stage or in the age of
childhood, the students will have many
knowledge and information about everything
that read in their growing although it is
through reading a book or experience in their
lives. It means that the reading habits will
affect the students’ writing skill.
The point of writing is that writing
what is in mind and making the readers
understand what has been written. So, Writing
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is a very important capability for being owned
by students, writing is also an excellent
communication tool. Writing is one of the
English skills that involved many components
in English, for example the grammar or
structure, punctuation, coherence, cohesion,
and etcetera. Writing is a complex skill
because it is involved all of the English
components.
However, the students’ get some
difficulties in writing something especially in
English. Writing is one of the English skills
that require enough time to express the idea or
opinion in general classification to the specific
description. It means that the students have to
have more knowledge and more material, so
the students can express their idea in writing
something. One of the habits that will help the
students are easy in writing to express their
idea is by increasing their reading habits.
Review of Related Theories
The Concept of Reading Habits
Soedarso (2006) states that reading is
the complex activity that involved the number
of activities. At the age of childhood, the
children learn to know words by words, spell
those words and differ those words by another
words. The children have to read aloud, spell
each word completely in order to know
whether the reading is true or not. The children
are taught reading by structural, from the left
to right, and observe each word on the
structure that available. The limitation has not
to do manipulation the word meaning and the
word structure in the sentences. The reading
habits that carried out by the children on the
age of childhood will be continued to the
adult. The adult can know the phrase,
sentence, and the structure of idea so the
reading habits that carried out on the age of
childhood is not to do anymore.
In the educational word especially in
English teaching, reading is one of the parts in
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English skill must be mastered by the student
in order to understand and comprehend
English text. English subject provided many
kinds of text. Those texts must be understood
by
the
students
through
reading
comprehension. In reading comprehension
activity, the students are demanded to
comprehend the reading text. However, it is
not easy to understand the reading text because
the most of the students found many
difficulties in understanding the reading text.
The students must increase their reading
activity in order to get many experiences in
understanding and comprehending the reading
text. The students’ reading habit is one of the
behaviors that must be increased by the
students. According to Patell and Praveen
(2010) reading habits not only help the student
to get knowledge and wisdom from the
cultural of heritage, but are also very helpful in
passing for leisure period. Leisure hours are
not only, during the active period of life but
also, more significantly, during the period
when man has retired from active life.
Therefore the learner of English must know
reading English. The education of a child is
imperfect, unless he is supplied every things
needed with the ability of reading.
In addition, according to Arican, et. al
as quoted by Ayhan, et. al (2013), The habit of
reading is defined as practicing the act of
reading throughout life, constantly and
critically as a result of perceiving reading as a
need and a source of pleasure.
The Nature of Writing
Some people considered that writing is
difficult thing to do. Writing is not simply skill
to transfer a spoken language into a readable
text, but it also requires some particular
aspects to convey a message into piece of
paper clearly. Writing is the language use to
express and to communicate with others. It
must be difficult without practicing regurally.
Reading Habits and The Students’ Writing Ability
Among EFL Learners - Addin ro’sy aulia
The point of writing is that writing
what is in mind and making the readers
understand what has been written. So, Writing
is a very important capability for being owned
by students, writing is also an excellent
communication tool.
The point of writing is that writing
what is in mind and making the readers
understand what has been written. So, Writing
is a very important capability for being owned
by students, writing is also an excellent
communication tool. Writing is one of the
English skills that involved many components
in English, for example the grammar or
structure, punctuation, coherence, cohesion,
and etcetera. Writing is a complex skill
because it is involved all of the English
components.
The Correlation between Reading and Writing
Patel and Praveen (2008) state that thus
reading and writing reinforce each other and
consolidate the aural-oral learning. The
teaching and speaking, provides for greater
variety of classroom activity for both teacher
and students than a purely aural-oral program.
According to Jakobs & Perrin as
quoted by Gruyter (2008) reading also takes
place in processes, predominantly purposeful
processes that create mental representations
from physical representations. In written
communication, reading is the counterpart of
writing: people perceive an offer of
communication by reading a text. Reading can
occur in isolation from writing, but
communicative reading processes often
include minor writing processes, such as when
people make notes about a text they are
reading. Conversely, every writing process
includes reading processes, since people
always read parts of what they have just
written.
The point of writing is that writing
what is in mind and making the readers
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understand what has been written. So, Writing
is a very important capability for being owned
by students, writing is also an excellent
communication tool. Writing is one of the
English skills that involved many components
in English, for example the grammar or
structure, punctuation, coherence, cohesion,
and etcetera. Writing is a complex skill
because it is involved all of the English
components.
However, the students’ get some
difficulties in writing something especially in
English. Writing is one of the English skills
that require enough time to express the idea or
opinion in general classification to the specific
description. It means that the students have to
have more knowledge and more material, so
the students can express their idea in writing
something. One of the habits that will help the
students are easy in writing to express their
idea is by increasing their reading habits.
The Influence of Reading Habits to the
Students’ Writing Ability
According to Patell and Praveen (2010)
reading habits not only help the student to get
knowledge and wisdom from the cultural of
heritage, but are also very helpful in passing
for leisure period. Leisure hours are not only,
during the active period of life but also, more
significantly, during the period when man has
retired from active life. Therefore the learner
of English must know reading English. The
education of a child is imperfect, unless he is
supplied every things needed with the ability
of reading.
Reading habit is one of the behaviors
that will affect the students’ information
mastery. If the students have many times in
reading, so the students will have more
knowledge and master much information
around the world. On the other hand, if the
students have high reading habit, the students
will have high competence in the writing skill
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because the students’ reading habit will make
them easy to deliver their opinion or ideas
about a topic into a written text in the writing
activity because through reading habits that
started in the earlier stage or in the age of
childhood, the students will have many
knowledge and information about everything
that read in their growing although it is
through reading a book or experience in their
lives.
Method
The descriptive design describes the
current status of the subjects in the study. The
correlation study carries out to investigate the
existence or non existence of the relationship
between the variables of the study in order to
make predictions or suggestions. The design of
the correlation study can be seen as follows:
Variable
X
Where:
Variable X
Variable Y
Symbol
Variable
Y
: the Students’ Reading Habits
: the Students’ Writing Ability
: the
Correlation
between
Reading Habits and the
Students’ Writing Ability
In this study, the population is all of the
students of the second semester of English
Department in Lamongan Islamic University
in the academic year 2014/2015. The
population consists of two class, namely II A
and II B class. The total member of population
is 68 students. The researcher uses all of the
subjects on the population as the sample of this
study. It means that the researcher uses II A
and II B as the sample of this study. II A class
consists of 25 students and II B class consists
of 43 students, so the total of sample is 68
students. The researcher takes the sample by
using quota sampling because the population is
less than one hundred respondents, so the
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sample that used is all of the respondents on
the population.
Findings and Discussion
The Result of the Students’ Reading Habits of
“A” Class at the Second Semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the Academic Year
2014/2015
Based on the calculation above, the
researcher got the total score of overall
students’ reading habit was 5187 and mean
score was 76.27. It was located on the Good
category. It meant that the students’ reading
habit at the second semester of English
Department of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 was “Good”.
The Result of the Students’ Writing Ability
The researcher used documentation to
know the students’ writing ability during the
writing course in the teaching and learning
process. The documentation is in the form of
students’ report mark for several meetings for
March up to May. The researcher got the value
of the students’ writing ability by taking
consultation with the writing lecturer, Uzlifatul
Masruroh, M.Pd. The researcher also asked
about the assessment of the writing in order to
measure the students’ writing ability, the
researcher got the data that the assessment
criteria used in the writing ability is PortfolioBased Assessment.
The Result of the Students’ Writing Ability of
“A” Class at the Second Semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the Academic Year
2014/2015
In this study, the researcher found the
scores of the students’ writing ability on “A”
class at the second semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015. After gaining the result of the
students’ writing ability, the researcher
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determined the quality of the students’ writing
ability on “A” class by using the scale criteria
that offered by Purwanto. Then, the researcher
got the result of the quality of the students’
writing ability on “A” class as follows:
Based on the calculation above, the
researcher got the total score of overall
students’ writing ability was 1941.25 with the
mean of total score was 77.65. It was located
on the Good category. It meant that the
students’ writing ability on “A” class at the
second semester of English Department of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
“Good”.
The Result of the Students’ Writing Ability of
“B” Class at the Second Semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the Academic Year
2014/2015
In this study, the researcher found the
scores of the students’ writing ability on “B”
class at the second semester of English
Department in UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015. After gaining the result of the
students’ writing ability, the researcher
determined the quality of the students’ writing
ability on “B” class. Based on the calculation
above, the researcher got the total score of
overall students’ writing ability was 3348.5
with the mean of total score was 77.87. It was
located on the Good category. It meant that the
students’ writing ability on “A” class at the
second semester of English Department of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
“Good”.
Discussion
The researcher presented the discussion
to answer the problems of this study. The
result of the students’ reading habits among
EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 showed that the mean ( ) of the
total score of the students’ reading habits
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among EFL learners of UNISLA at the second
semester was 76.27 with the total score (∑x)
was 5187 . The mean of total score of the
students’ reading habits was 76.27 was located
on the scale 76-85. It meant that the quality of
the students’ reading habits among EFL
learners of UNISLA at the second semester in
the academic year 2014/2015 was “Good”.
The researcher correlate the result of
the students’ reading habits among EFL
learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 with the explanation that stated by
Mrs. Tiara Retno, a reading lecturer through
open questionnaire on 4th of July 2015thatthe
quality of overall the students’ reading habits
was “Good”. It showed that it relevant
between Mrs. Tiara’s statement and the data
analysis of the students’ reading habits among
EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015.
The result of data analysis of
documentation of the students’ writing ability
among EFL learners of UNISLA in the
academic year 2014/2015 showed that the
mean ( ) of the total score of the students’
writing ability among EFL learners of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
77.79 with the total score (∑y) was 5829.75.
The score of the students’ writing ability
among EFL learners of UNISLA in the
academic year 2014/2015 was 77.79 was
located on the scale 76-85. It meant that the
quality of the students’ writing ability among
EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 was “Good”.
The researcher related the result of the
students’ writing ability among EFL learners
of UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015
with the explanation that stated by Mrs.
Uzlifatul Masruroh, English writing lecturer
through open questionnaire on 5h of July 2015
that the quality of overall the students’ writing
ability was “Good”. It showed that it suited
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between Mrs. Uzlifatul Masruroh’s statement
and the data analysis of the students’ writing
ability among EFL learners of UNISLA in the
academic year 201/2015.
The result of r-value that calculated by
using Pearson Product Moment showed that
the result of r-value was 0.41. It meant that rvalue (0.41) was located on the r-scale 0.41 –
0.70. It showed that the correlation between
reading habits and the students’ writing ability
at the second semester among EFL learners of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
“Quite High Correlation”.
Based on the value of “r” was 0.41
which the r-table 0.317 where significant level
(α) was 0.01 and degree of freedom (df) was
66. It showed that the r-value was higher than
r-table, in the significant level 1%. The
significant level 1% was taken because the
sample of this study was more than 30
students. The researcher concluded that Ha
was accepted and Ho was rejected. It meant
that there is significant correlation between the
reading habits and the students’ writing ability
among EFL learners of UNISLA in the
academic year 2014/2015.
Conclusion
The students’ reading habits at the
second semester among EFL learners of
UNISLA in the academic year 2014/2015 was
“Good”. It can be seen on the mean ( ) of the
total score was 76.27 with the total score (∑x)
was 5187. The mean of total score of the
students’ reading habit was 76.27 was located
on the scale 76-85. The students’ writing
ability among EFL learners of UNISLA at the
second semester in the academic year
2014/2015 was “Good”. It can be seen on the
mean ( ) of the total score was 77.79 with the
total score (∑y) was 5289.75. The score of the
students’ writing ability was 77.79 was located
on the scale 76-85. The correlation between
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students’ reading habits and the students’
writing ability at the second semester among
EFL learners of UNISLA in the academic year
2014/2015 was “Quite High Correlation”. It
can be seen on the result of r-value was 0.41. It
meant that r-value (0.41) was located on the rscale 0.41 – 0.70 (quite high category). The rvalue (0.41) ≥ r-table (0.317) proved that Ha
was accepted, so there was a significant
correlation between reading habits and the
students’ writing ability among EFL learners
of UNISLA.
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