THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ HABIT IN READING DIGITAL TEXT AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION

Abstract

Abstract: Reading is considered as fundamental skill that determines individuals’ skill in receiving written information from any parts of the world. With the easy access to reading material, the reader should have more time to read, and have better reading comprehension. Therefore, the current study aims to confirms the correlation between students’ habit in reading digital test on students’ reading comprehension. This study used correlational research design on three variables which are digital reading habit, and reading comprehension. The data for this research collected in the form of digital reading habit questionnaire, and reading comprehension test from 38 students from 8th semester of English department from University of Islam Malang through Google Form. The data were analyzed SPSS Pearson’s Product moment correlational analysis. The result of the study indicates that there is a correlation between digital reading habit and reading comprehension is significant. So, hypothesis alternative is accepted and null hypothesis is rejected. Moreover, it also has correlation at 0.839 which categorized as strong and positive correlation. The conclusion suggest that digital reading material should be utilized optimaly to promote reading habit. For the following research, it is suggested to study digital reading habit in other major other than English as most reading material in internet is in English that they have to adapt.

Key Words: : Digital, reading habit, reading comprehension