CONTRIBUTION OF READING HABIT, READING INTEREST, READING MOTIVATION, READING SELF-EFFICACY TO THE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

The general objective pursued in this research is to describe and predict the students’ reading habit, reading interest, reading motivation, and reading self-efficacy to their reading competency in the Senior High School. The design applied is a quantitative research. There were 124 students recruited using cluster sampling technique. Data were gathered using four rating scales and a reading test. The obtained data were analyzed in two phases, namely: descriptively and inferentially. Descriptively, central tendency measures and dispersion were computed for the four predictor variables and one criterion variable. Whereas inferentially, gross and net contributions of the four predictor variables to the criterion variables were computed using regression analysis technique.  Descriptively, the mean scores of reading habit, reading interest, reading motivation, reading self-efficacy, and reading comprehension are categorically moderate. The multiple correlation between the predictor variables and the criterion variable is highly significant (R= 78.7%). The contribution of the predictor variable to the criterion variable is as much as 61.9%. The research findings imply effective efforts to the betterment of reading habit, interest, motivation, self-efficacy as well as the the students’ reading comprehension in SMAN 1 Kuta Selatan.