THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING HABIT AND NARATIVE TEXT WRITING ABILITY OF TENTH-GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA N 1 RENDANG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/2021

Ni Komang Sariningsih (Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar)
Ni Luh Putu Dian Sawitri (Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar)
Luh Ketut Sri Widhiasih (Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar)

Academic Journal on English Studies (AJOES)
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): Volume 1 Number 2 October 2021

The aim of this study was to define the relationship between students' reading habits and their narrative writing abilities. The population of this study were students of class X SMA 1 Rendang. A product moment correlation method is applied in this study. There are two instruments for collecting data; namely the instrument to measure students' reading habits, in this case was a questionnaire, and the instrument to measure students' ability to write narrative, which is a text construction test. The result shows that there is a significant relationship between students' reading habits and the ability to write narrative text in class X SMA 1 Rendang. Therefore, it can be concluded that the more students read, the better their narrative writing skills.