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The correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension of eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Kota Kediri
Vocabulary is a word or list with meaning and which is known by speakers and which is used to communicate among those speakers and used by a group or individual. Reading comprehension is defined the ability to read text, process it, and understand the meaning. Vocabulary and reading cannot be separated, since both of them relate to each other. Readers cannot understand what they are reading without knowing what most of the word mean. The aim of the research is to find out whether there is any correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension of eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Kediri.
This research uses correlational quantitative research as the research design. The population of this research was the eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Kediri. While the sample in this study is 120 eleventh grade students of MAN 2 Kediri. The data of this research is collected using TOEFL and TOEIC test. The TOEFL test is adopted from TOEFL junior by ETS, is used to collected the data of students' reading comprehension. Then, the TOEIC test was taken from the TOEIC book entitled Toeic Preparation is used to collect the data of vocabulary mastery.
The findings of this research are the vocabulary mastery score level, reading comprehension score level, and the correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. The first is there are 0 (0%) students got excellent score of vocabulary mastery, 45 (37.5%) got good score, 36 (30%) got fairly good category, 6 (5%) got fair category and 35 (29.16%) got poor category, with means score 13, median 15 and mode 15. Then, the second is there are 2 (1.67%) students got excellent score of reading comprehension, 17 (14.16%) got good category, 41 (34.16%) got fairly good category, 31 (2583%) gat Gir category, and 29 (24.16%) got poor category, with means score 66.03, median 67.50 and mode 78. The correlation coefficient of students' vocabulary mastery and students reading comprehension is .157 It means, the correlation is weak and the attribute of the correlation coefficient shows positive correlation. The significant value. (sig.) .020 and Ho is rejected, which indicates that there is a significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension.
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