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2024•
AN ANALYSIS OF THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS’ READING HABIT OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT BORNEO UNIVERSITY OF TARAKAN ABSTRACT The purpose of the research was to describe the reading habits of fourth semester students of English department at Borneo University of Tarakan. This research used was descriptive qualitative method. In this research, the researcher took a sample of fourth semester students with a total 31 students of local A1 2022. Then, the researcher selected 6 students to take part in the Interview session. To collect the data, the researcher used questionnaires and interviews. The researcher analyzed the data through three stages, namely data reduction, data display, and conclusion verification. Based on the result of data analysis, the researcher found that reading habits affected the students learning process. This is evidenced by the results of the questionnaire and students’ interest in reading by using a guideline of 5 interval categories including strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree. The results showed that 40.6% of students chose to strongly agree on non-academic reading interest, 28.1% of students agreed, 18.5% of students stated neutral, 12.5% of students disagreed on non-academic reading interest. The interview results showed that the majority of students liked non-academic reading and minority of students liked academic reading. Thus, the researcher concluded that the quality of reading habits of fourth semester students of English department at Borneo University of Tarakan in academics was low while in non-academic reading interest of students was high as evidenced by the high of digital platforms such as social media.
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2023•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
The purpose of this research was to measure the relationship between reading habits and vocabulary mastery in learning English of eighth grade students at SMP Negeri 3 Tarakan. This study used quantitative techniques and a correlational research method. Students in the eighth grade made up the subject of this study, which used a sample of up to 32 pupils using the cluster random sampling methodology. In collecting data, researchers used reading habit questionnaires and vocabulary test. Data was analyzed using Pearson Product Moment correlation. The results of the research showed that the reading habits and vocabulary mastery in learning English in eighth grade students at SMP Negeri 3 Tarakan were in the medium category. A t-test result of 0.443 > r-table = 0.361 revealed a medium category positive correlation between eighth graders at SMP Negeri 3 Tarakan English reading habits and vocabulaty mastery. In conclusion, reading habits and vocabulary proficiency in learning English had a good link in the medium category.
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2021•Skripsi, Thesis, Disertasi, dan Tugas Akhir
ABSTRACT AGUSTINAH. 2021. The Correlation Between Students’ Reading Habit and Students’ Descriptive Writing Achievement of Eleventh Graders at SMKN 2 Tarakan. (Advisor: Romlah Ulfaika, M.Pd) The purpose of this research was to find out the relationship between reading habits and students’ descriptive writing achievement at eleventh grader of SMKN 2 Tarakan in the academic year 2020/2021 or not. This research used a quantitative approach method. The numbers of samples in this research were 60 eleventh graders which used a random sampling technique. There were two variables in this research, independent variable (students’ reading habit) and dependent variable (students’ descriptive writing achievement). Students were given a questionnaire in the reading habit test, while the writing test using the description text test. In analyzing data, researchers used Pearson product moment formula. This research indicated that on students’ reading habit, the result showed 3 students very high with 5%. Then, 16 students were in high with a rate of 26,67% and 15 students with a moderate portion of 25%. Meanwhile, there were 18 students with low reading habits with a percentage of 30%, and there were 8 students in very low with the percentage 13,33%. On students’ descriptive writing achievement there were no students in very good category with percentage 0%, 2 students were in the good category with percentage 3,33%, 6 students were in a fair category with percentage 10%, and on the contrary, the last point, there were 52 students in low category with percentage 86,67%. The results of Pearson Product Moment show a correlation coefficient or the rtest which was 0.812, it was higher than rtable, which was 0.254. The level of probability significance (Sig. 2-tailed), which was 0.000, was lower than the level of significance, which was 0.05. The result indicates that there was a significant correlation between reading habit and students’ descriptive writing achievement. In addition, it can be concluded the result of this research show when the score of reading habit is bad, their writing quality is also bad. In contrast, if the score of students’ reading habit is good, their writing test score is also good
