The Relationship between Students’ Reading Habit and Their Ability in Writing Descriptive at The Eighth Grade of The First Semester on SMPN 3 Depok in 2020/2021 Academic Year

sri utami ... [et.al]; drs. zuhad ahmad, m.pd; nita kaniadewi, m. pd;

RIZCHA FAUZYA BIMANTRI, 1401065104. The relationship between students’ reading habit and their ability in writing descriptive at the eighth grade of the first semester on SMPN 3 Depok in 2020/2021 Academic Year. A Paper: the Study Programme of English Education, the School of Teacher Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta 2020.
The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence whether there is a relationship or not between students‟ reading habit and their ability in writing descriptive at the eighth grade of the first semester on SMPN 3 Depok in 2020/2021 Academic Year.
This study was held in July 2020 with 330 students as the population and 33 students in VIII-C as the sample. The method of this study was quantitative survey method. The instruments used for collecting the data were reading habit questionnaire and writing test about descriptive. The scores of two variables were calculated by using Pearson‟s Product Moment Correlation.
Based on the result of Chi-Square test, the data of two variables have normal distribution. The result of normality of X2o (6.46) in X variables and X2o (7.86) in Y variable are smaller than X2t= 9.49. From the scattered diagram, the scores show closed to the straight line and linear. From the r-test, the result of ro=
0.50 is higher than rt= 0.3338. As ro > rt, it can be said Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. From the t-test, the result of to= 3.23 is higher than tt= 1.69. Therefore, there is a significant relationship between students‟ reading habit and their ability in writing descriptive at the eighth grade of the first semester on SMPN 3 Depok in 2020/2021 Academic year.