English Reading Habit of Students With Different L1 Reading Habit, L2 Reading Proficiency, and Reading Attitude

Abstrak

Second language reading is affected by reading habit
of first language, the reading proficiency, the
strategies of reading, and reading attitude (Sundari,
2013). The questions lies in this study are (1) how
does English reading habit of students with different
L1 reading habit, L2 reading proficiency, and reading
attitude? (2) And what is the factor mostly affected
the English reading habit? This is a qualitative-
quantitative research, this is a qualitative research for
its purpose to describe the English habit, and this
study is also a quantitative research for its purpose to
find the most factors affected the English reading
habit by applying the formula of correlation to see the
highest coefficient correlation. The instruments of
this study are two questionnaires of (1) reading
attitude by M.N. Gomleksiz (2004) and (2) L2
reading habit by Ro Eunseok and Alice (2014) which
are administered to 23 students. The result of this
study are: (1) English reading habits of the subjects
found out various and different due to the
combination of the three factors collaborated, from
23 students there are 11 of them are in low English
reading habit, 8 of them are in moderate English
reading habit, and 4 of them are in high English
reading habit. (2) Though, L1 reading habit is mostly
low but L2 reading proficiency is the factor mostly
affected English reading habit since its coefficient
correlation is the highest 0,76.