The Relationship Between Vocabulary Mastery And Reading Comprehension at Eight Grade Students of SMPN 50 Jakarta Timur In 2013/2014 Academic Year

tim penulis budaya kerja bank indonesia; drs. zuhad ahmad, m. pd; dra. roslaini, m. hum;

MAULIA NURUL HAPSAH. The Relationship Between Vocabulary Mastery
And Reading Comprehension at Eight Grade Students of SMPN 50 Jakarta Timur
In 2013/2014 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English
Language Teaching the School of Teacher Training and Education,The University
Muhammadiyah Prof Dr Hamka, 2014.
The goal of this is research is to find the objective condition from the
relationship between students‟ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension
which was observed and analyzed from eight grade students of SMPN 50 Jakarta
Timur.
Moreover, the purpose of this study is also to get the informationan the
empirical data about the impact of students‟ vocabulary mastery and their reading
comprehension. The population of the research are 144 students and 36 students
were being the sample of the research. All are from the eight grade of SMPN 50
Jakarta Timur. This research was using experiment method in quantitative by
collecting data using test instrument and did the research with observation.
All the data gained in this reserach was analyzed by using the formulation
Pearson product momment correlation coefficient. According to the result of the
analysis and statistical calculation, it is found that students‟ vocabulary mastery
got avarage score 74,2 and the students‟ reading comprehension got average score
is 70,3. The result of correlation analysis showed that there is a significant
relationship between eight grade students‟ vocabulary mastery and reading
comprehension of SMPN 50 Jakarta Timur with ro= 0,58 and rt= 0,32. It means
that ro > rt = 0,58 > 0,32. So, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted . It means that there
is relationship. The result of significant correlation is to is 4,17 and tt is 1,70. It
means that to > tt (4,17 > 1,70). So, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. So, there is a
significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension at
eight grade students of SMPN 50 Jakarta Timur.
Based on this finding from this study, it can be concluded that having more
vocabulary or vocabulary mastery significantly affects the comprehension of the
students‟ of reading activity. Moreover, by having many vocabulary the students‟
can easily get information and fun story writen in english which finally in can
enrich their knowledge by reading a lot of books.