Reading Habits Of Senior High School Students In Marpoyan Damai Pekanbaru

The objectives of this research was to find out how are the students reading habits of senior high school students in Marpoyan Damai District, Pekanbaru. This research focuses on how are the students’ reading habits of SMA YLPI Pekanbaru and SMA N 4 Pekanbaru. This research design of this study was a case study. There are are four classes that were being the sample that was consisted of 134 students which were 67 students of SMA YLPI and 67 students of SMA N 4 Pekanbaru. The instrument of this research was open questionnaire of reading habits indicators. In this research, reading habits indicators consisted five components; attitude toward reading, books read, reading frequency, time spent on reading and motivation in reading. Students reading habits can be seen by the indicators of reading habits by find out from students answersn on the questionnaire. The researcher analyzed the data and find out that there were 124 students of 134 students that were not feeling anxious and difficult in reading, 120 students spent their time on academic to read their book, as their duty as students. 190 students have high amout of books read, 108 students spent their time to read on their spare time, 106 students are feeling enjoy in reading, 100 students are motivated by their teacher to read and read book as their teacher recommendation, 91 students are motivated by their family environment to read, 90 students have hign frequency in reading and 80 are doing activity on reading such as disscussion with their friends after read the book