The Relaionship between Students’ Reading Habit and Students’ Reading Comprehension of the Eight Grade students on SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018/2019 Academic Year

sumardi,. s.e., m.si.; drs. susilo wardoyo, m.pd.; neti hartati, m.pd.;

MOCHAMAD ILHAM RACHMAN.NIM 1301065100. “The Relaionship
between Students’ Reading Habit and Students’ Reading Comprehension of the Eight Grade students on SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018/2019 Academic Year. The Study Programme of English Education, the School of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta 2019 The aim of this study is to find out whether or not there is a relaionship between students’ reading habit and their reading comprehension of the eight grade students on SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018/2019 academic year.
The objective of this study is to know the relaionship between students’
reading habit and their reading comprehension at the first grade students of SMPN
49 Jakarta in academic year 2018/2019.The method used in this research is a
quantitative research in ascpect correlational study. This study involves 32
students of the eight grade at SMPN 49 Jakartain academic year 2018/2019. A
Test and a questionnaire areused as theinstrumentsof this research.First of all, a
reading test was given to the students in a form of multiple choice to get the
scores of students and a questionnaire using Likert’s scale was used to get the data
of students’ reading habit. Then, the writer analyzed the relationship by
usingPearson’s Product Moment Formulation to analyze the correlation of the
students reading habit (variable X) and reading comprehension (Variable Y). The
result showsthat ro and t-table is 1.685 It concluded that there is no significant relationshipbetween
students’ reading habit and their reading comprehension of the eight grade
students of SMPN 49 Jakarta.
From the findings of the study, the writer concluded that there is no
significance relationship between students reading habit and their reading
comprehension at the eight grade students at SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018/2019 academic year.