The Correlation Between the Second Year Students’ Habit in Reading English Book and Their Vocabulary Mastery at SMPN 25 Padang

Darni, Mai and Khairul, Harha and Lailatul, Husna (2015) The Correlation Between the Second Year Students’ Habit in Reading English Book and Their Vocabulary Mastery at SMPN 25 Padang. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This study was aimed to find out whether there is correlation between students’ habit in reading English books and their vocabulary mastery at SMPN 25 Padang. This study used a correlation as design and had two variables, namely: habit and vocabulary mastery. The member of population members was 216 students at SMPN 25 Padang. The number of samples selected were 41 students. The instrument used to collect data were questionnaire and vocabulary test. The reliability index of questionnaire was 0.63 . The reliability index of vocabulary test was 0.91 The result of the data analysis revealed that the value of r-calculated in this research was (0.72) ( see appendix 17). While the value of r-table with the level significant 95% (α. 05 ) and the degree of freedom (df) n-2(29) was (0.31) ( see Appendix 17 ). It means the r-calculated was higher than r-table (0. 31) see Appendix 17). Therefore, the correlation between students’ habit in reading English book and their vocabulary mastery was significant. Then, the alternative hypothesis said that ‘’ there is significant correlation between students’ habit in reading English book and their vocabulary mastery at SMPN 25 Padang’’ was accepted. The index of coefficient of determination of this study was 0.51. It means that the reading habit contributes 51% to the students’ vocabulary mastery, while, 49 % is determined by other extranous variables. Learning from the result, it can be concluded that the correlation between students’ habi in Reading English bookt and their vocabulary mastery of the second year students at SMPN 25 Padang was significant ( see Appendix 17). The teachers are suggested to encourage students to read more through out classroom tasks in order that the students’ habit of reading English book increase. The students can improve their vocabulary mastery by reading more English books. Futhermore, next researchers are suggested to study other variables which related to the students’ vocabulary mastery

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