A Correlational Study Between Vocabulary Mastery And Reading Comprehension Of The Eighth-Grade Students Of SMPN 2 Ubud

Abstract

Reading, one of the basic language skills, is essential to gain information and meaning. This language skill allows students to express their ideas, broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge.Reading enables them to open up their minds to new ways of thinking, perceiving, and doing things; as a result, books can be their teachers, mentors, and inspirations.This research was mainly intended to determine whether there is any significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension of the eighth-grade students of SMPN 2 Ubud in academic year 2021/2022. The present correlationalresearch was conducted by administering the research instruments: matching cloze procedure test and short answer tasks. The research instruments were administered to 50 students who were chosen as the representative samples by applying a simple random sampling.The collected data were statistically analyzed through prerequisite and hypothesis testing in which Pearson product-moment correlation formula and t-test were applied. Based on the data analysis, it was figured out that there was a significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehensionthe eighth-grade students of SMPN 2 Ubud in academic year 2021/2022. This research finding showed that students’ vocabulary master was important when they would like to understand the reading texts further. They should master many vocabularies to make a comprehensive meaning after reading a text. In addition, the finding of this research further suggests that teachers should pay attention to students’ vocabulary mastery during the practice of reading comprehension in the teaching and learning process.