THE INFLUENCE OF READING INTEREST AND LIBRARY ACCESS TOWARDS STUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

The research was designed to examine the influence of reading interest of English Study
Program students, Sriwijaya State Polytechnic and library access as perceived by the students
themselves towards their reading achievement. The number of the sample was 60 which were taken
randomly. A measure of reading interest was used to measure reading interest of the students and a
measure of library access was used to measure their perception about library access. The archive about
students’ reading scores from English Study Program, Sriwijaya State Polytechnic was used to see their
reading achievement. Pearson Product Moment and Multiple Linear Regression were used to test the
hypotheses. The results proved that there was significant correlation between reading interest of
English Study Program students, Sriwijaya State Polytechnic and their reading achievement; there was
significant correlation between library access as perceived by English Study Program students,
Sriwijaya State Polytechnic and their reading achievement; reading interest of English Study Program
students, Sriwijaya State Polytechnic added to library access as perceived by the students themselves
influenced their reading achievement significantly.