THE CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTEREST AND THEIR READING HABIT TOWARD COMPREHENDING HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT AT SMAN 5 PADANG

Abstrak

The type of this research was correlation design. This research was aimed at find
out the correlation between students’ interest and their reading habit comprehending
hortatory exposition textn at SMAN 5 Padang. The hypothesis of this researcher was there
is a significant correlation between students’ interest and their reading habit toward
comprehending hortatory exposition text at SMAN 5 Padang. The number of population
members was 307 students. There were distributed into nine classes; XII IPA 1, XII IPA 2,
XII IPA 3, XII IPA 4, XII IPA 5,XII IPS 1, XII IPS 2, XII IPS 3, XII IPS 4, and XII IPS 5 .
The researcher took two classes as sample by using stratified cluster random sampling
technique. The classes selected as sample were classes XII IPA 2 and XII IPS 1. The
researcher gathered the data by using interview, two questionnaire to measure students’
interest and reading habits, and reading test to measure students’ ability to comprehend
text. To analyze the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and
Double Correlation Formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that value of
coefficient of three variables was 0.65 and f- counted was 350.80 (α 0.05) and the degree of
freedom (df) n-k-1 (59), value of f- table was 3.15 . It means that f- counted (350.80) was
bigger than f- table (3.15). Therefore, the relationship between three variables, students’
interest, reading habits and ability to comprehend text was significant. It means that the
alternative hypothesis that said “there is a significant correlation between students’ interest
and their reading habits toward comprehending hortatory exposition text at SMAN 5
Padang” was accepted. Learning from the result, it can be concluded that the correlation
between students’ interest and their reading habits toward their comprehending hortatory
exposition text was high.
Key words: Correlation, Students’ Interest Reading Habit, and Reading Comprehension