Abstract :
This study investigated the correlation between reading habit and writing
achievement, and explored the influence of reading habit on writing achievement
of undergraduate English major students of UIN Raden Fatah Palembang. A total
of 103 fifth semseter students participated in this study. The questionnaire and test
were used to collect the data. For this purpose, the reading habit questionnaire
developed by Janthong and Sripethpun (2010) measured students? reading habit,
and the writing test using rubric from Diablo Valley College (2012) was used to
know students? writing achievement. There were five classfied from very good to
vey poor based on the results of reading habit questionnaire and writing test.
Descriptive stastistic, Pearson product moment correlation and regression anlaysis
were employed to analyze the data. Based on the data analysis, it was found that r
(.664) < rtable (.207) with significant level which was higher than 0.05. Thus, it
indicated that there was significant correlation between reading habit and writing
achievement. It was implied that good reading habit caused good writing
achievement. Because of that finding, there was need to conduct regression
analysis to check the influence of the reading habit on writing achievement. It was
found that t(8.331)