The Correlation between Students' Habit of Underlining Text and Their Reading Comprehension

This study was generally designed to find out the frequency of students’ habit of underlining text and to investigate the correlation between students’ underlining habit and their reading comprehension. The sample of this study was 73 of first semester students at English Language Education Department of UIN Ar- Raniry who were purposively assigned by the researcher. This study used quantitative research design by proposing the questionnaire and the test. Based on the Likert scale, the data analysis of questionnaire showed that students have a good underlining habit in which the average score was 66 and the percentage was 72.9%, whereas the average and the percentage of comprehension test scored 65 and presented 65.8%. By calculating both scores into Pearson formula, the correlation coefficient of this study resulted at 0.699. As a result, the researcher concluded that students’ habit of underlining text and their reading comprehension had a high correlation.