The Correlation Between The Students’ Reading Habit And Reading Comprehension At The Third Grade English Language Education Of FKIP, Universitas Islam Riau

Reading habits are one of the important factors in understanding or comprehend the content of reading. Students who have the habit of reading have the ability to understand the contents of the reading well. To prove this, the researcher conducted this research which aims to find out whether there is a significant correlation between the students’ reading habit and their reading comprehension at the third grade English Language Education of FKIP, Universitas Islam Riau. The method of this research is quantitative approach with a correlational design. The population in this research were students at the third grade English Language Education of FKIP, Universitas Islam Riau. The sample of this research were A class which consist of 29 students and B class concsist of 31 students. Researcher used questionnaire and test as the instruments to get the data from the respondents that given via link. Based on the data from reading habit, there were 33 students (55%) in very high category, 26 students for the high criteria (43,4%), and 1 student for the medium criteria (1,7%). From the result data of reading comprehension, it showed that they were in high category. Then the researcher calculated the correlation used Pearson Product Moment in SPSS. The statistical test results or the rvalue obtained by the correlation was 0.424, which is > rtable (0.254). It can be concluded that there is a relationship between reading habit and reading comprehension at the third grade English Language Education of Universitas Islam Riau