THE CORRELATION BETWEEN LISTENING HABIT AND VOCABULARY MASTERY OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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ABSTRACT
The type of this research was correlational design. This research was aimed to finding out the correlation between listening habit of the first year students of English department of Bung Hatta University and their vocabulary mastery. The population of this research was all of the first year students of English Department at Bung Hatta University who register in 2015/2016 academic year. Size of sample was 38, due to the number of students, the researcher used total sampling method. The researcher used two instruments to collect the data. First was questionnaire to collect data on students’ listening habit (X) and second was vocabulary test to collect data on students’ vocabulary mastery (Y). Based on the result of data analysis, it was found that rcalculated 0.72. The value of rtable with level of significance 0.05 and degree of freedom (df = n-2) was 0.31. It means that rcalculated was bigger than rtable (0.72 > 0.31). The hypothesis “there is a significant correlation between listening habit of the first year students at Bung Hatta university and their vocabulary mastery” was acceptedFrom the result of data analysis, it can be concluded that there was a significant correlation between listening habit of the first year English students of Bung hatta university and their vocabulary mastery. It means that if the students’ listening habit is good, their vocabulary mastery is good too. The researcher proposes suggestions. First is for teachers, in order to improve students’vocabulary mastery , teachers should make effort to increase students’ habit in listening and make their students’ listening skill become better. Second is for students, in order to improve their vocabulary mastery, they should learn more, and listen English song as much as they can.
Key words: Correlation, listening Habit, and Vocabulary Mastery