THE CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS’ READING HABIT AND THEIR VOCABULARY MASTERY TOWARD THEIR READING COMPREHENSION OF SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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ABSTRACT
This research was aimed to find out a correlation between students’ reading habit and their vocabulary mastery toward their reading comprehension of second year students’ of English Department of Bung Hatta University. The researcher gathered the data by using questionnaire, vocabulary test and reading test. To analyze the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and Double Correlation Formula. Reading habit of second year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University was moderate (57%), their vocabulary mastery was moderate (37%) and their reading comprehension was good (53%). For the coefficient correlation, first the value of coefficient correlation between students’ reading habit and their reading comprehension was positive (r counted 0.45 > r table 0.36). Second, the value of coefficient correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading comprehension was positive (r counted 0.94 > r table 0.36). Third, the value of coefficient of correlation between students’ reading habit and their vocabulary mastery toward their reading comprehension was positive (f counted 102.74 > 3.35 f table) α 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) n-k-1 (27). It can be concluded that there was a significant correlation between students’ reading habit and their vocabulary mastery toward their reading comprehension of second year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University.
Key words: correlation, reading habit, vocabulary mastery, reading comprehension