The Correlation Study Between Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension of The Eleventh-Grade Students of SMA PGRI Blahbatuh

Abstract

Reading is one of the language skills which plays a very important part because it concerns about how students can get information from the written text. By strengthening their reading comprehension skill, students will gain a lot of knowledges and information from written text. The mastery of students in reading comprehension will help them developing their knowledges and language proficiency skills. Of course, in improving the reading comprehension, students should be able to master vocabulary. By mastering vocabulary in learning language skill, they can catch a lot of important messages that are delivered in the reading text. Therefore, this present study was conducted to explore whether there is any significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension of the eleventh-grade students of the SMA PGRI Blahbatuh in academic year 2021/2022. This present study used correlational research design where the researchers collected the data by giving a test for sample students which consisted of 40 students, and they were chosen randomly by using lottery system. Moreover, the data in the present study was gathered through matching cloze procedure test for assessing students’ vocabulary mastery and short-answer test for assessing students’ reading comprehension. The results of those tests were tabulated by using SPSS to see the normality and homogeneity of the data. Furthermore, the findings of this research will give the awareness for both teacher and students about the important of mastering vocabulary for enhancing the students’ reading comprehension in learning foreign language.