Is College Students’ Reading Habit Truly Related to Their Writing Ability?

The research aimed to describe college students’ reading habits and find the relationship between their reading
habits and their writing ability. The data were collected from 50 non-English Department students who took
English subject whose content was English language skills, including reading and writing. A questionnaire about
reading habits was created and distributed to these students. Then in the classroom, they were assigned to write
an essay about a topic they like twice. The analysis was done by analyzing the questionnaire’s results on reading
habits, then comparing these results with writing scores using a statistical program, SPSS. The findings show that
generally, more than half of the respondents usually read, even though they do not read quite often. Most students
think that reading contributes to writing, especially in vocabulary and gathering ideas. However, their reading
habits do not have a correlation with their writing ability.