The Relationship Between The Habit Of Watching English Movies And The Vocabulary Competence Of The Eighth-Grade Students Of SMP Tafiz Mahir Jakarta In The Second Semester Of The 2018/2019 Academic Year

miskun; drs. bahrul hasibuan, m.ed; neti hartati, m.pd;

RIDHO EDYANSYAH PERDANA. The Relationship between the Habit of
Watching English Movies and the Vocabulary Competence of the Eighth-Grade
Students of SMP Tafiz Mahir Jakarta in the Second Semester of the 2018/2019
Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education,
the School of the Teacher Training and Education, the University of
Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka. Jakarta, 2019.
The objective of the research was to find empirical evidence whether there
is a significant relationship or not between the students’ habit of watching English
movies and their vocabulary competence of the eighth-grade students of SMP
TAHFIDZ MAHIR BIL QURAN Jakarta in the second semester of the 2018/2019
Academic Year.
The data was collected from January 8th until January 11th 2019. The
subjects of the research were from VIII A and VIII B classes which consisted of
44 students. The method of the research is quantitative method. The instrument
used for collecting the data were through a vocabulary test and a questionnaire on
the students’ habit of watching English movies. The score of the two variables
were analyzed by using the Pearson’s Product Moment correlation.
From the data analysis, the result of t-observed is 7.34 and the writer
used the degree of freedom (df) in the table of significance df= n-2 = 44-2= 42.
The level of 0.95 significance is 1.68. It can be seen that the t-observed is higher
than that in the t-table 1.68 (7.34 >1.68). It means HO (null hypothesis) is rejected
and Hi is accepted. Therefore, there is a significant relationship between the
students’ habit of watching English movies and the vocabulary competence of the
eighth-grade students of SMP TAHFIDZ MAHIR BIL QURAN Jakarta in the second
semester of the 2018/2019 academic year