A Correlation Between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Their Reading Habits Toward Their Ability to Comprehend An Analytical Exposition Text At SMAN 7 Padang

Vina, Desita and Khairul, Harha and Adzanil, Prima Septy (2015) A Correlation Between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Their Reading Habits Toward Their Ability to Comprehend An Analytical Exposition Text At SMAN 7 Padang. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to find out a correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habits toward their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text of senior high school English lesson materials at SMAN 7 Padang. The hypothesis of this research was that if there was a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habits toward their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text at SMAN 7 Padang. The number of population was 266 students. There were distributed into nine classes; XI MIA 1, XI MIA 2, XI MIA 3, XI MIA 4, XI MIA 5, XI MIA 6, XI MIA 7, XI IIS 1, and XI IIS 2. The researcher took two classes as sample by using stratified cluster random sampling technique. The classes selected as sample were classes XI MIA 2 and XI IIS 2. The researcher gathered the data by using vocabulary test to measure students’ vocabulary mastery, questionnaire to measure students’ reading habits and reading test to measure students’ ability to comprehend text. To analyze the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and Double Correlation Formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that the value of coefficient of three variables was 0.95 and f- counted was 470.45 (α 0.05) and the degree of freedom (df) n-k-1 (57), value of f- table was 3.15 (see appendix 36). It means that f- counted (470.45) was bigger that f- table (3.15). Therefore, the relationship between three variables, vocabulary mastery, reading habits and ability to text comprehension was significant. It means that the alternative hypothesis stating “there is a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habits toward their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text at SMAN 7 Padang” was accepted. Learning from the result, There was a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habit toward their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text at SMAN 7 Padang. It can be concluded that the vocabulary mastery and their reading habits can influence their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text.

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