Author (Penulis)

Distiyan Adhika Verinaty
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0059

Abstract

ABSTRACT Reading is one of the language skills which is very important to develop students’ knowledge in their studies. One of the difficulties in reading is comprehend the content of the text because the writer must have enough vocabulary to support comprehending the text. Therefore, it is impossible to learn a language without vocabulary. The purpose of the research is to know whether there is correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. The quantitative correlation research was used in this research. This research used two variables such as: vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. The Data were collected from 98 eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 3 Kediri. It was held from 27thto 28th of May, 2016. The data were taken by using achievement test. There are two kind of test; they are vocabulary test and reading test. The test items were given to measure the students’ level of reading comprehension and vocabulary mastery. The results were compared to find out the correlation between those variables. The data of this research were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Formula. The research result showed that correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension in 0,691. It shows that there is significant correlation at the 0.01 level. The result of the study is in the degree 5% and 1% and it shows that it is higher than r-table. It can be seen from r-table of the significant degree of 5% is 0.1966 and the significant degree of 1% of r-table is 0.2565 then it can be conclude that the alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. The level of the correlation is high. After knowing the result that vocabulary mastery was contributive in helping the students to comprehend the texts, the writer suggest to the English teacher to build the students’ understanding of the vocabulary before doing reading activity and the students can increase their vocabulary mastery to get good reading comprehension. Then for the further researcher can also investigate the correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension for other level in education or the correlation of vocabulary with the other language skill. KEY WORDS:Correlation, VocabularyMastery, ReadingComprehension.

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-17

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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