The Correlation Between Reading Habits and Students' Grammar Mastery on Simple Past Tense at Tenth grade of MAN 1 Bukittinggi In Academic Year 2021/2022”,
ABSTRACT Messy Putri: 2315.128, "The Correlation Between Reading Habits and Students' Grammar Mastery on Simple Past Tense at Tenth grade of MAN 1 Bukittinggi In Academic Year 2021/2022”, A Thesis, University of Sjech M Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, 2022. This research aimed to find out whether there was any significant correlation between Reading Habits and Grammar mastery of simple past tense in the tenth grade of MAN 1 Bukittinggi In Academic Year 2021/2022 academic years 2021/2022. The researcher found several problems Students were still confused in distinguishing between verbs that were included in regular verbs and were included in irregular verbs. The students' Reading habit and their grammar mastery of simple past tense were not balanced. The students were confused about some words in the reading text. Thus, this research was done in MAN 1 Bukittinggi. The design of this research was correlational research. The instruments of this research were questionnaires for measuring students' reading habits and grammar mastery on simple past tense tests for measuring students’ grammar mastery on the simple past tense. The population of this research was all of the tenth-grade students of MAN 1 Bukittinggi in the Academic Year of 2021/2022 which consisted of 9 classes. The sample was 31 students taken by simple random sampling technique. To find whether the students' reading habits and their grammar mastery of simple past tense correlate or not, the researcher used the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The results of the research show that there was a correlation between students’ Reading Habits and their Grammar mastery of simple past tense in the tenth grade of MAN 1 Bukittinggi In Academic Year 2021/2022 academic years 2021/2022. The researcher found that the coefficient of correlation between students’ Reading Habits and their Grammar mastery of simple past tense in the tenth grade of MAN 1 Bukittinggi In the Academic Year 2021/2022 was 0,77. The researcher consults to r-table with significant alpha value (ɒ) = 0, 05 and df= 29. Based on the r-table, it was obtained as 0,3550, and the researcher had 𝑟𝑥𝑦 = 0,77. It means that the 𝑟𝑥𝑦 score was bigger rather than the r- table score. If 𝑟𝑥𝑦>𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑏, so Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. 0,77>0,3550, so Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. There was a positive and significant correlation. It means that Ho was accepted. In addition Based on the interpretation of Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient between 0,70-0,90. Thus, there was a high correlation between the two variables. In conclusion, the magnitude of the correlation between reading habits and Grammar mastery on simple past tenses was a high correlation. In conclusion, this research was done for finding the correlation between students’ Reading Habits and their Grammar mastery of simple past tense in the tenth grade of MAN 1 Bukittinggi In the Academic Year 2021/2022. Keywords: Correlation, Reading Habits, and Grammar mastery