The Correlation between Students’ Vocabulary mastery and their Learning Motivation toward their Reading Ability to Comprehend Narrative Text at Bung Hatta University.
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ABSTRACT
This research was aimed to find out a correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their learning motivation toward their reading ability to comprehend narrative text of the third year students at Bung Hatta University . The hypothesis of this research was that there was a significant correlation between students’ Vocabulary mastery and their learning motivation toward their reading ability to comprehend narrative text at Bung Hatta University.
The number of population was 52 students. There were distributed into two classes; A and B. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique. The researcher gathered the data by using questionnaire to measure students’ motivation, vocabulary mastery test to measure students’ vocabulary mastery and reading test to measure students’ ability to comprehend narrative 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 values of coefficient of three variables was 0.45 and f- counted was 22.3 and the degree of freedom (df) n-k-1 (18 ), value of f- table was 3.55 (see appendix 26). It means that f- counted (22,3 ) was smaller that f- table (3.55). Therefore, the relationship between three variables, vocabulary, motivation and comprehend was not significant. It means that the alternative hypothesis stating “is there any significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and learning motivation toward their reading ability to comprehend narrative text at Bung Hatta University” was accepted.
Learning from the result, there was no significant between students’ vocabulary mastery and learning motivation toward their reading ability comprehend narrative text at Bung Hatta University.
Key words: Vocabuary Mastery,Reading Comprehension,and Reading comprehend
