THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING MOTIVATION AND READING HABIT OF 4TH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT UNIVERSITY OF ISLAM MALANG

ABSTRACTSafrina, Lucky Dea. 2021. The Correlation between Students’ Reading Motivation and Reading Habits of the 4th Semester English Department of University of Islam Malang. Skripsi, English Education Department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Universitas Islam Malang. Advisor 1: Dr. Muhammad Yunus, M.Pd..; Advisor 2: Dzurriyyatun Ni’mah, S.S., M.Pd Reading motivation is a crucial factor that stimulates learners to read more, and it has a close relationship to reading skill. As a result, most researchers have noticed the influence of motivation in target language acquisition and how motivation enhances language learners' understanding. Motivation in reading have significant benefits to students in developing their knowledge and literacy, it is important to motivate students to read by providing them opportunities to select their desired materials. This study was aimed to investigate of relationship between students’ reading motivation and reading habit of the 4th semester English Department of University of Islam Malang. The researcher hypothesized that there is a correlation between students’ reading motivation and reading habit.The researcher took samples from fourth-semester students of English Department at University Islam Malang because all of them had taken Reading 4 subject. In this study, the researcher used a quantitative approach with a correlation design. The instruments used in this study were reading motivation and reading habit questionnaire. The researcher also used IBM SPSS version 25 to analyze the data.The data that have been analyzed showed that the Sig. (2-tailed) is .000. The researcher found that the correlation between the two variables was 0.967 with significance of coefficient .000. It means that there was a very high correlation between reading motivation and students' reading habits. The alternative hypothesis that stated there is a significant correlation between reading motivation and students’ reading habit of the fourth semester students of English Department at University of Islam Malang is accepted. It can be concluded that there is a significant correlation between students’ reading motivation and reading habit. From the result of the study, it can be said that the students who have high scores in reading motivation also have good scores in reading habit and the students who have low scores in reading motivation also have low scores in reading habit. The researcher concluded that reading motivation influences the students’ reading habit.Key words: Reading habit, Reading Motivation, Correlatio