Impact of reading on students’ writing ability

Abstract

For college students, reading and writing are very necessary for the success of their studies.Reading habit can severe their knowledge and comprehension in their field of subjects.This study sets out to investigate how students' reading skills affect students' academic writing.Fifty-two master students of English Language Education at Universitas Ahmad Dahlan in Yogyakarta, Indonesia were involved in this correlational study.Two questionnaires were used as instruments to obtain the data, i.e., the reading habit survey and the academic writing skill survey.The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and single linear regression tests along with the prerequisite test of normality.The results revealed that the reading habit and writing skills of the students were at the medium level.Meanwhile, the other result showed that the reading habit had a profound effect on college students' academic writing skill shown by the p-value of T-test = 0.000 and F score = 352,524 at the significant 0,000 ≤ 0,05.In other words, reading habit has a significant influence on college students' academic writing skill.

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