The Relationship Between The Habit Of Watching English Movies And The Ability To Use Vocabulary On The Students’ First Year Of SMPN 49 Jakarta In The 2018/2019 Academic Year

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HELMI PRIYANTO NIM: 1401065056. The Relationship Between the
Students’ Habit of watching English movies and Their Vocabulary Ability to use
at the Seventh – Grade Students of SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018-2019 Academic
Year. A Paper; the Study Program of English Education, the School of Teacher
Training and Education the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA
Jakarta 2019.
The objective of this study was to find out the empirical evidence whether
there is a significant relationship or not between the students’ habit of watching
English movies and their vocabulary ability to use at the seventh-grade students of
SMPN 49 Jakarta in 2018-2019 academic year. This study was held in February
2019. The writer chose the VII B Class as the random sample that consisted of 35
students. The method of this study was quantitative method which uses a
correlational study of Pearson’s Product Moment. The instruments used for
collecting the data were Likert – scale questionnaire on the students’ habit of
watching English movies and a vocabulary test - used to measure students’
vocabulary ability.
The scores of the two variables were calculated by using Pearson’s Product
Moment Correlation. Based on the result of Chi-Square test, the data of the two
variables had normal distributions. The result of normality in χ2 students’ habit of
watching English movies and χ2 students’ vocabulary ability were smaller than χ2
= 7.81. Chi-Square test result of χ2 students’ habit of watching English movies = -
14,138 and χ2 students’ vocabulary ability = -151,563. From the scattered
diagram, the scores are not closed in the linear line, so the both data were not
linear.
From the t-test, the result of to= 0.5469 is smaller than tt= 0,681. As to < tt,
it can be said that Ho is accepted it means there is no relationship between
students’ habit of watching English movies and their vocabulary ability