Abstract :
This research were aimed to find out whether there was any positive correlation
between students? reading habit and students? writing ability. This research used
quantitative approach and the design was ex-post facto design, so there was no
treatment in this research. The population in this study was the first grade students
of SMA Swadhipa Natar, 37 students of X IPA 4 were taken as the samples
through the use of cluster random sampling. To obtain the data, researcher used
reading habit questionnaire and writing test in narrative text as the instruments.
Moreover, the data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation
in SPSS 26 version. The result of the data analysis showed that there was a
positive correlation between students? reading habit and students? writing ability
since the r-value (0.554) was higher than r-table (0.316). This indicated that the
more students read, the higher writing ability she or he gets.
Keywords: correlation, reading habit, writing ability.