This research was aimed at knowing what extent EFL students‟ reading
habit and the factors that contribute. The respondents were 50 students of English
Departmentt from the 6th semester. The method used was descriptive-quantitative
methode. However, questionnaire and interview were used to collect the data.
This study found that the highest frequency was in fair category as much
as 38 students. It is followed by bad category which was gotten by 7 students.
Then, in good category there were only 5 students. In addition, for the factors
that contribute to the reading habit, there are about 48% of the students who have
motivation to read only because their lecturers assigned them to read texts. While
it is about 68% of the students show us that they have various preferences of what
books they read whether it is fiction as well as non fiction. Interestingly, 98% of
the students‟ purpose to read is all to improve their English skills.