English reading habit of student teachers at english teacher education department of Sunan Ampel State Islamic University: level and common factor analysis

Reading habit is the significant involvement in English Teacher Education Department. Specifically, this research focuses on reading habit level and the most common factor that influence reading habit. The reason of knowing reading habit is student teachers need to be experienced with any kinds of English readings, so they can give recommended English readings. This research is conducted using mixed method design where it combines both quantitative and qualitative method. Questionnaire and interview guideline are the instruments in this research. Researcher took 89 respondents for questionnaire and took 15 respondents to be interviewed. As the result, researcher found that most of student teachers were in the medium level of reading habit, it is known as moderate readers. It was shown from the statistical report from SPSS 20 and providing descriptive statistic, researcher showed the mean, median and mode. It showed that median from question number 1, 2 3 4 5 and 6 = 2.00. It refers to the option Sometimes. The table 4.1 showed that the greatest frequency or mode that is shown by number 2. Furthermore, mean from each question showed different number, but it closes with number 2 or 2.00. Mean refers to the option Sometimes. Meaning that reading habit level has close number with option number 2 and it can be categorized as Moderate Level. Furthermore, researcher found that student teachers are mostly intrinsically motivated to read. It was shown that from 15 respondents, 7 respondents showed that they were intrinsically motivated, 5 respondents showed that they were extrinsically motivated and 3 respondents showed that the advancement of technology influence them to read.