The influence of students reading habit of short stories on their abilities of writing narrative text

This research is based on Krashen‟ statement that reading can enhance reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary knowledge and spelling skill. The writer looked the influence of reading habit of short stories to the abilities of writing narrative text. The aims of this study are to explain the level of students‟ reading habit of short stories, to explain the students‟ writing ability of narrative text, to explain the influence of students‟ reading habit of short stories on their abilities of writing narrative text. The method of this research is quantitative method. The data obtained by filling questionnaire and writing a narrative text. The data analyzed by regression.The result of regression analysis is obtained the score of F= 1.287 with the score of significancy 0.264. Because of F count = 1.287and Ftable = 4.12 (1.287 ˂ 4.12), it means that (F count ˂ Ftable), so, Ha is rejected and Ho isaccepted. So, there is no influence of students‟ reading habit of short sories to the writing abilities of narrative text at the tenth grade of MA NU Raudlatul Mu‟allimin Wedung, Demak, in the academic year of 2018/2019