The Influence Learning Strategies, Gender and Reading Habits on Reading hanits: The Influence on Reading Skill

Abstract

Reading is an important skill that is used to understand the language.Nowadays reading is taught as an integrated skill in the school. So, the students must be more pay attention to their awareness of reading. Not only the awareness of reading but also learning strategies is one factor to support students' reading skill. This study has the objective of determining the influence of learning strategies, gender and reading habits on reading skill at MA Miftahul Midad. The researcher used the quantitative method in this study, especially causal-comparative design. Data of questionnaires applied to a total of 40 students consisting of 20 male students and 20 female students have been analyzed by SPSS version 20. In this study, the researcher found that there was the contribution of learning strategies on reading skill. It was significance < 0.05 a number of 58.1 %. Meanwhile, the difference of gender in MA Miftahul Midad showed that the female students reached the higher score mean than male students a number of 68.4. Meanwhile, reading habits contributed as much as 79.3 %. According to the data obtained in the study,it has been signed that more student used learning strategies and have more reading habits, the students got a good score in their reading skill.