The influence of vocabulary mastery toward students’ reading comprehension at SMK Negeri 1 AngkolaTimur

Haryati, Janna (2013) The influence of vocabulary mastery toward students’ reading comprehension at SMK Negeri 1 AngkolaTimur. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The problems were that the students have less vocabulary so that they didn’t know the meaning of what they have been read and listened. They also less practice, because they are lazy and uninterest to learn English, and they also had less motivation from the environment or family. Another problem from the teacher, he didn’t graduated from English department and didn’t use English teaching methods well. The aims of research were to know the students’ vocabulary mastery at eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 1 Angkola Timur, to know the students’ reading comprehension, to know the influence of vocabulary mastery toward students’ reading comprehension at eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 1 AngkolaTimur. This research was done in SMK Negeri Angkola Timur. The population of research is all students eleventh grade of SMK Negeri 1 Angkola Timur and the sample of the research is a part of the population, they were 30 students. The kind of this research was quantitative research by using descriptive method. The instrument of data collecting was test.The research used the product moment for analyzing data. In this occasion, mean score of vocabulary mastery = 69.9 and the mean score of reading comprehension = 55.3. In which the product moment result rxy = 0,661 more than rtable on taraf significant 5% = 0,339 and on taraf significant 1% = 0,436, so it is categorized enough influence.Based on the result above, hypothesis is received that there are significant influence between vocabulary mastery toward students’ reading comprehension at SMK Negeri 1 AngkolaTimur.

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