The Correlation between Students’ Reading Motivation and Reading Habit on Their Reading Comprehension

Nensy Salam(1*), Gusti Nur Hafifah(2), Pramudana Ihsan(3)

(1) Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya
(2) Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya
(3) Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


This study analyzed the correlation between students' reading motivation and reading habits on their reading comprehension. This study used survey research methods with correlation techniques. The subject of this study was senior high school students in Surabaya. In collecting the data, the instruments used in this study were questionnaires and tests. The students' reading motivation and reading habit score was taken from the questionnaire using Google form, whereas the reading comprehension was taken from the reading test using multiple choices. The study used multiple linear regression analysis. Based on the result of the data analysis, there was a significant correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension with a p-value of 0.030 < 0.05, and the tcount value was 2.199 > ttable 1.97960. In addition, there was no correlation between reading habits and reading comprehension because the significance value was 0.707 > 0.05, and the tcount value was 0.377 < ttable 1.97960. However, when analyzed simultaneously, the p-value was 0.031 < 0.05, and the Fcount value was 3.586 > Ftable 3.07. Thus, the correlation between reading motivation and reading habits was significant to reading comprehension. Although, the correlation between the variables was categorized as low because students' reading motivation and reading habits are not the only aspects that influence their reading comprehension. Therefore, further research can analyze students' reading comprehension with other variables.


Keywords


Correlation; Reading Motivation; Reading Habit; Reading Comprehension

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