THE CORRELATION BETWEEN VOCABULARY MASTERY AND READING HABITS TOWARD COMPREHENDING A REPORT TEXT OF STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 IX KOTO SUNGAILASI
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ABSTRACT
The type of this research was correlation design. This research was aimed at find out the correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading habit towaed comprehending a report text of students of SMAN 1 IX Koto Sungailasi. The number of population members was 183 students. The researcher took two classes as sample by using stratified random sampling technique. The classes selected as sample were classes XII IPA 2 and XII IPS 2. The researcher gathered the data by using questionnaire to measure reading habits, and reading test to measure students’ ability to comprehend text. To analyze the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula,Double Correlation Formula. Based on the result of the data, the researcher found that students’ Vocabulary Mastery was moderate, their Reading Habit was high, and their Reading ability was moderate too. Then she also found that the value of coefficient correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading habit was 0,80 and rtable (α 0.05)and df=r n-1(60) ,and the value of coefficient correlation between students’ reading habit and their reading ability was 0,83 and rtable 0,25(α 0.05),and df=r n-1 then value of coefficient of three variables was 0.81 and f- counted was 328,05 (α 0.05) and (df) n-k-1 (62), value of f- table was 3.15(α 0.05) and (df) n-k-1 (62). Therefore, the relationship between three variables(vocabulary mastery, reading habits and ability to comprehend text) was significant. Learning from the result, it can be concluded that the correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading habit towaed comprehending a report text of students of SMAN 1 IX Koto Sungailasi text was high.
Key words: Correlation, Students’ vocabulary ,Reading Habit, and Reading Comprehension