The correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension at fifth semester students’ of TBI-2 IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Siagian, Sabroh Laila (2016) The correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension at fifth semester students’ of TBI-2 IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research explored the correlation between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension. The problems of this research many students were not interested in reading English because they did not know how to pronounce the words, they did not know the meaning of vocabulary, students also have difficulty in understanding the texts or to get information from the texts when they read, most of students get low achievement in vocabulary mastery, and students had lack of motivation in learning vocabulary, and also students did not have good method in vocabulary or they did not know the method. Finally, the researcher focused about the correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension at fifth semester students’ of TBI-2 IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The research was conducted by quantitative method. In this research, the researcher wanted to find out about how significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. The population is fifth semester of TBI in IAIN Padangsidimpuan, the total of population was 112 students in 3 classes. The sample of this research was 30 students taken by using random sampling. Next, the instrument for the collecting data the researcher used multiple-choice test. To analysis the data the researcher used formulation of product moment. From the result of the data analysis, it was found that rxy was 0.950 while rtable 0.374. It means that rcount > rtable (0.950 > 0.374). So, alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It meant that hypothesis was accepted. However, it means that there is correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension at fifth semester students’ of TBI-2 IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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