THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING ATTITUDES AND READING FREQUENCY: THE CASE STUDY OF SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 26 PERUM. RINDANG GARDEN KEC. BATU AJI BATAM
THE CASE STUDY OF SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMPN 26 PERUM. RINDANG GARDEN KEC. BATU AJI BATAM Alpino Susanto, susanto.alpino40@gmail.com, Universitas Putera Batam
Keywords:
Reading Frequency; Reading attitude; Academic reading; Recreational readingAbstract
ABSTRACT
This research explored the Junior High School Students second grade with regard to the correlation between reading attitude and reading frequency. Reading attitude composed of academic reading and recreational reading. The Elementary Reading Attitude Scale and the Frequency Questionnaire were administered to the students of SMPN 26 Batu Aji as the population of the study. The sample of the study is 37 students from 1 class of the second grade that questionnaire were taken. This study presents the correlation between reading attitude (X3) and reading frequency, as well as the correlation between academic reading (X1) and recreational reading (X2) with reading frequency (Y). The Pearson Corrrelation was used to measure the correlation by the r value. As the result, 34% of the variability in academic reading is attributable to difference in reading frequency. 28% of the variability in recreational reading is attributable to difference in reading frequency and 36% of the variability in reading attitude is attributable to difference in reading frequency.
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(1995). Relationships of instruction to amount of reading: An exploration of social, cognitive, and instructional connections. Reading Research Quarterly, 30(1), 8-25.
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snuggle. Teaching Upper
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knowledge – of words and the world. American
Educator, 27(1), 10-29.
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School Library Journal, 33(4), 43.
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children’s attitudes toward reading. The Journal of
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reading expressed by elementary school students diagnosed with learning disabilities. Reading Psychology.
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Children’s attitudes toward reading: A national survey. Reading Research Quarterly, 30(1), 934-956.
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for whom? Learning Disability Quarterly, 31(4), 187-
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Prentice Hall, Inc
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Influence of reading attitude on reading achievement: A test of the temporal-interaction
model. Psychology in the Schools.
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Publications, Inc.
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Language. Kyoto: Kyoto Tachibana Women's University.
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between reading attitudes and frequency of reading. Ohio: Bowling University
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grade reading literacy: Findings from the Progress in
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children’s home Literacy environment. (Unpublished
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foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2013, from The Success
for All.
Tyre, P., & Springen, K. (2007). Fourth-grade slump.
Newsweek.
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