The Correlation Between Recreational Reading Habit and Reading Achievement

The title of this thesis is “The Correlation between Recreational Reading Habit and Reading Achievement”. The purposes of this study were to discuss the time that English Language Education students spend in recreational reading, the impact of recreational reading habit on students‟ reading score, and the correlation between the amounts of time spent in reading and students‟ reading achievement. This study was a quantitative research using document analysis and interview as research instrument. Pearson‟s product moment formula was used through SPSS 16.0 application to analyze the data. It was conducted in Department of English Language Education of UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. The respondent of this study was 8 students consist of 1 male student and 7 female students. The result of this research indicated that the calculation of r value reveals that recreational reading habit strongly correlates with students‟ reading achievement. Students‟ of English Language Education generally spent two hours daily for recreational reading activity. Most of them prefered to read novel and magazine instead of other reading materials such as newspaper, articel, and journal. Thus, result suggests that there is correlation between recreational reading habit and reading achievement.