THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENT’S HABIT OF READING ENGLISH NOVEL AND THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT

Abstract

This research entitled The Correlation between Students’ Habit of Reading English Novel and Their Ability in Writing Recount Text. This research aimed to know the level of habit in reading novel of the fourth semester of Bale Bandung University in the academic year of 2019, examining their writing ability in recount text, and finding out whether there is correlation between students’ reading habit of novel and their ability in writing recount text. 24 students were taken as sample of this research through random sampling technique. Researcher used questionnaire to know students’ level of reading habit in reading novel and writing test to measure students’ ability of writing recount text as research instruments. After giving and calculating the instruments, researcher find that average of the sample has good reading habit and fair ability in writing recount text. Then the result analysed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation method. The calculation showed that the score of r is 1.452. Thus, the r value is between 0.800-1.00 and included into very high category. It means that the degree of correlation is very high and positive. The value of t observed is 6.763. The critical value t (t-table) 6.763>2.069. Based on the data above the researcher concludes that the correlation between students’ habit of reading novel and their ability in writing recount text done at fourth semester of Bale Bandung University in academic year 2019 is very high, positive and significant. Even though the result showed there is significant between reading habit of novel and writing ability, students still need to improve their reading habit and writing ability because they are very important to be mastered.
Keyword: Reading Habit,Novel,Writing,Recount Text