THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VOCABULARY MASTERY AND STUDENTS’ EXTENSIVE READING SKILL OF THE TENTH GRADE AT SMKN 8 JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

fathur rahman; siswana, m. pd.; dra. roslaini, m. hum.;

FIKRI ABDUL GONI. NIM: 0901065102. The Relationship Between
Vocabulary Mastery and Students’ Extensive Reading Skill of tenth Grade at
SMKN 8 Jakarta in the 2013/2014 Academic Year. A Paper. English Language
Teaching Programme The School of Teacher Training and Education The
University of Muhammadiyah prof. DR. Hamka. Jakarta, october , 2014.
The objective of the research was to find out whether there was a
relationship or not between students’ vocabulary mastery and students extensive
reading skill of tenth grade at SMKN 8 Jakarta. The research took place at
SMKN 8 which located at JL. Komplek, kemdikbud, pejaten pasar minggu East
Jakarta. The research was done on october 2014.
There are two variables in this research. The first variable was students’
vocabulary mastery as variable x, and the second variable was students’ extensive
reading skill as variable Y. The population of this research was 144 of eighth
grade students in SMPN 8 Jakarta. The writer took 25% of four classes, so total
sample was 36 students which taken by using simple random sampling. The
instruments used to get data were test. The tests used in this research were
vocabulary and extensive reading. The score of students’ calculated by using
Pearson’s product moment correlation.
The result of the research showed the students vocabulary mastery got the
average score 72.80 and the average score of extensive reading skill was 58.16,
and the result of Pearson product moment correlation analysis showed ro = 0.574
and rt with df= 36 was 0.329. In other word robserved is higher than rtable, ro (0.574) >
rt (0.329, so Hi is accepted and Ho is rejected. Thus, it can be summarized that
there was a significant relationship between vocabulary mastery and students
extensive reading skill for tenth grade students at SMPN 8 Jakarta.