ARTICLE REVIEW

Name : Nurul Hamidah Septianingsih

Class : 4C

NPM 1910631060118

CRITICAL READING 

Link :  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Atayeva_Merjen/publication/335223991_Impact_of_reading_on_students'_writing_ability/links/5d5c140492851c37636c9f51/Impact-of-reading-on-students-writing-ability.pdf 

Jurnal : Impact of reading on students’ writing ability

Year : 2019

Writers : Merjen Atayeva, Putro Nur Hidayanto Pancoro Setyo, Gulzhaina Kassymova, Saida Kosbay

Reviewer : Nurul Hanmidah Septiningsih

Date : 14 March 2021

Background : This article will explain us how reading can impact us on writing ability.  tell us since not many studies have been done on the effect of reading habit to the problem of academic writing made by college students of English Language Teaching Education, a thorough investigation pertinent to this is needed to be conducted as they are going to be professional English teachers. 

Purpose : This study sets out to investigate how students’ reading skills affect students’ academic writing. 

Result : 

• Research Question 1: What is the degree of reading habit and academic writing skill of college students of English Language Education at UAD? The results of the study are structured from general descriptive of the students, amount of time given for reading practice, types of texts they read, source of their reading text, other books they read, the number of published writings in national and international journals. The students who took the course “Thesis Writing Proposal” at the graduate program of English Language Education, UAD are graduated from Bachelor of English Language Education of different colleges in Indonesia. Only two students (3.84 %) have the profession as English Language teachers at junior and senior high schools. They have taught the English Language for five years. It means that most of them (96,15%) are undergraduates without any professions. 
• Research Question 2: Is there a significant effect of reading habit towards college students’ academic writing of English Language Education at UAD? The regression score of reading habits is 0,837 which indicates an increasing reading habit can also increase the writing skill at the 0,837 with the constant 2.006. Such significant relationship then was tested by using ANOVA. The results show that F score is 352,524 at the significant 0,000 ≤ 0,05. Thus, it can be said that the reading habits of college students of UAD have a significant influence on their writing skill. 

Conclusion : In conclusion The reading habits of college students at the graduate program of English Language Education, UAD are categorized into the medium level. This means that they already encouraged their capability to read a lot regularly pertaining to the topics they are eager to read. In addition, they have also showed that they have a good activity improve their knowledge related to everything via reading habit. Meanwhile, the level of writing skill of the students at the graduate program of English Language Education are also in the medium level. It is less than the reading habit. Hence, it can be meant that the college students need to elevate their competence of writing so that they can balance both their competence reading towards writing. Likewise, this study confirms that the reading habit has effected on their academic writing. It is due to many errors made by them for examples they lack English grammar, syntax, choice of words, and the cohesive item of the paragraph. In other words, those lacks of skills should be mastered and learnt by the college students since they are prepared to behold the future for their successful career.

Adventages : 

• In this article doesn't have a lot of vocabulary
• The choice of words in this article is easy to understand 
• This article use correct grammar 
• The structure of this article is well 
• The calculation of impact factor is easily understood

Disadventages : 

• It is highly dependent on the number of references per article in the research field
• The journal’s impact factor is not necessarily representative of the individual journal articles