A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR READING HABITS TOWARD THEIR ABILITY TO COMPREHEND AN ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT AT SMAN 7 PADANG
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This research was aimed to find out a correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habits toward their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text of senior high school English lesson materials at SMAN 7 Padang. The hypothesis of this research was that if there was a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habits toward their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text at SMAN 7 Padang. The number of population was 266 students. The researcher took two classes as sample by using stratified cluster random sampling technique. The researcher gathered the data by using vocabulary test to measure students’ vocabulary mastery, questionnaire to measure students’ reading habits and reading test to measure students’ ability to comprehend text. To analyze the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and Double Correlation Formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that the value of coefficient of three variables was 0.95 and f- counted was 470.45 (α 0.05) and the degree of freedom (df) n-k-1 (57), value of f- table was 3.15 (see appendix 36). It means that f- counted (470.45) was bigger that f- table (3.15). Therefore, the relationship between three variables, vocabulary mastery, reading habits and ability to text comprehension was significant. It means that the alternative hypothesis stating “there is a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habits toward their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text at SMAN 7 Padang” was accepted. Learning from the result, There was a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habit toward their ability to comprehend an analytical exposition text of second grade students at SMAN 7 Padang.
Key words: Correlation, Vocabulary Mastery, Reading Habit ,and Reading Comprehension