THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS' VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR READING SPEED AT THE SECOND SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE AT SMP N 03 MULYA KENCANA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2019/2020
| Main Author: | Ahmad Ad Dairaby, Dai |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2020
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.radenintan.ac.id/11711/1/Draft%20Ahmad%20Ad%20DAiraby.pdf http://repository.radenintan.ac.id/11711/2/A%20THESIS%202.pdf http://repository.radenintan.ac.id/11711/ |
Daftar Isi:
- ABSTRACT The objective of this research was to know whether there was any correlation between students' vocabulary mastery and their reading speed. Futhermore, in this quantitative research, the correlation research design is used. The population of this research was the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Mulya Kencana. The sample of this research was 77 students taken from VIII A, VIII E, and VIII F class. In collecting the data, this research was distributing vocabulary test to assess students’ vocabulary mastery. Besides, to measure students’ reading speed conducted reading speed test with WPM (Word Per Minute) Technique to students. Because the normality of vocabulary test was 0.008 less than 0.05 then the vocabulary test is not normal. So the hyphotesis was change from Pearson Product Moment to Spearman Rho Correlation Formula SPSS 16.0 version. After doing the hypothetical testing, the result demonstrated that there was strong positive correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading speed. Based on the data analysis computed by SPSS, it was obtained that rxy (0.306) is bigger than r table (0.220). It means that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. Based on this research, there was low positive correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading speed at the second semester of eighth grade of SMP N 3 Mulya Kencana in the academic year of 2019/2020.