THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING HABIT AND THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

KHUSNUL, HABIEBAH (2023) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING HABIT AND THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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ABSTRACT THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING HABIT AND THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT By: KHUSNUL HABIEBAH Reading not only habits help students to get knowledge and wisdom from the cultural of heritage, but are also very helpful in passing for leisure periods. The problem from reading and writing is learning to read and write can be very difficult. There are a wide variety of reasons why a child may be having a hard time. Problem for Reading and writing can occur alone but are often present together. some problems that the students faced in learning English especially in writing. Most students’ writing ability were good yet not. In addition, the teacher said that she seldom taught writing skill to the students and just focused on how to enable students to do the assessment test. He just thought about making students expert in answering questions in the examination instead of teaching the language skills. Moreover, there was no writing test in the examination, so writing was considered less important to teach. Another reason why the teacher seldom taught writing was because it was time consuming to correct. This reserarch was intend to investigate whether or not there is a correlation between students’ reading habit and ability in writing descriptive text correlates each other. The research used quantitative method through correlational research as a research design. The population of this research students of the second semester of eighth grade of Mts Al Fatah Natar in the academic year of 2022/2023, it consists of 193 students divided into 6 classes. The sample of this study were 30 students that had been selected. The sample was determined by using random sampling technique since six classes have the same level of English competency. In this case, 30 students from VIII A until VIII F The result from the this reseach showed reading habit and ability in writing was rather different with the other research, reading habit had good correlation with ability in writing descriptive text. In other words it was supported by this research and it was proved by testing hypothesis of the research, it is found that reading habit have the significant correlation to students’ ability in writing descriptive text at at the second semester of eighth grade of MTs Al-Fatah Natar. It can be seen from the computation in which the total possitive correlation of the students’ 0.503, the total was categorized there was a medium correlation So, it is clearly reading habit have the significant correlation to students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Reading habit is needed and really important in writing Keywords: Readin,g Habit, writing, Descriptive, Text

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