THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARIES MASTERY AND READING COPREHENSION

The purpose of this research is to test whether there is a relationship between vocabulary
mastery and students' English reading comprehension. This research was conducted
using a quantitative research method with a correlational research design where
researchers analyzed or measured the relationship between students' vocabulary mastery
and students' English reading comprehension. This research process was carried out with
two different tests. The first test focuses on students' vocabulary, and the second test
focuses on students' reading comprehension. The test was carried out on student VIII
which contained 23 students. The test results show that many students have a low level of
vocabulary mastery. Overall, vocabulary has an influence on reading comprehension,
this can be seen from the calculations. Because the calculated t value > t table and the
significance value < 0.05, it can be concluded that the hypothesis formulated is accepted,
namely that there is an influence of vocabulary mastery on reading comprehension
ability.
Keywords: Vocabulary Mastery, Reading Comprehension.