The Correlation between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension at the eighth grade of junior high school 1 Tlogosari in academic year 2018/2019.

Riskiyadi, Mr (2019) The Correlation between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension at the eighth grade of junior high school 1 Tlogosari in academic year 2018/2019. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Abstract

Vocabulary is one of factors that support students for mastering language skills, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Without vocabulary, students may not understand the conversation from listening section. In the same case, the students cannot communicate well without vocabulary. Vocabulary is also important for the students to comprehend reading text and write their ideas in writing, the problem is caused by student do not master the vocabulary. Vocabulary and reading cannot be separated, because both of them related to each other. So, vocabulary is very important in a language because vocabulary is one of the language components in English. There was one research question in this research, it was: Is there any significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and students’ reading comprehension? The objective of this research was: To know whether or not there is any significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and students’ reading comprehension? To answer the research question, the researcher used correlation method as the approach in analyzing the correlation between students’ vocabulary and reading test. Document analysis was used IBM SPSS 22 in collecting the data. The data of this research include vocabulary and reading texts. The population of this research was the eighth grade students of Junior high school 1 Tlogosari. Cluster random sampling technique was used on the research. As the result, Class VIII A and VIII B were selected as the sample of this study. Class VIII A of 28 students and class VIII B of 28 students. The test items of reading comprehension and vocabulary mastery were given to the students to measure their level of reading comprehension and vocabulary mastery. The results showed that there was correlation between those variables. The findings showed that there was a moderate correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading comprehension. The current study concluded that vocabulary mastery was contributive in helping the students to comprehend the texts.

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