THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN '

VOCABULARY AND READING ABILITY

(Case Study at the Second Year Students of MAN II Bekasi, Academic Year 2006-2007)
 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of Study
English is an international language. Almost all countries have adapted English used as

a compulsory subject at schools. The national education has decided that English as a foreign

language taught in Indonesian schools. It learned started from primary schools up to university.

People realize that teaching English at this level becomes very important and need much

concern. As an English teacher, he or she demands to explore effective techniques,

method, and approaches.

The students have to master the four basic language skills. They are listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. Beside such basic skill, the student has to master some
vocabularies as well as possible.

Vocabulary is one important aspect in learning a foreign language. With a limited vocabulary

anyone will also has a limited understanding in terms of speaking, reading, listening, and

writing. It is true that it might be impossible to learn a language without mastering

vocabulary. Vocabulary is one of the problems confronted by English language learners.

Because of the limited vocabulary, the learners cannot communicate to others clearly.

Sometimes it is difficult to group the idea transmitted to them. The acquisition of a large

number of vocabularies can help the students read, speak, listen, and write. A good

vocabulary and ability to use words correctly and effectively can help the students make school

work easier and more rewarding, and also many tests that they take in school include

vocabulary questions. The more vocabularies they know the better their chance to do well on

an English test.

According to H. G. Tarigan, Kualitas keterampilan berbahasa seseorang jelas tergantung

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pada kuantitas dan kualitas yang dimilikinya maka semakin besar kosakata yang kita miliki maka

semakin besar pula kemungkinan kita terampil berbahasa .1 (The quality of language skill depends
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on the quantity and quality of vocabulary. The more vocabulary we have, the bigger possibility to

have a skill to use the language).

Mastering vocabulary is the ability to get or to receive a lot of words. By having and
mastering vocabulary we will know the meaning of vocabulary in the context. Measuring
vocabulary helps to avoid making mistakes in understanding.
On the other hand, foreign students learning English reading text, one lack of
vocabulary, whereas in fact vocabulary is the most important thing in reading skill.

Nowadays, the ability to comprehend English is necessary for peoplean also to

understanding English, people have to able to communicate English and also able to read

many kinds of English text. The ability to read is crucial in contemporary society. People find

many texts written in English, from holiday brochures to academic books, newspaper,

advertisements, etc. therefore, the ability to read English text in any form will give a great deal of

advantages in our lives. Harry Madox said that reading is the most important single in study .2
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And the curriculum stated that out of the four skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, the

main emphasis is on reading skill because it is believed that acquisition of reading in a second or

foreign language is priority.3

Reading is good thing in life because it is a factor of great importance in the individual

development and the most important activity in school. It is needed in every level of field of

study. Particularly in cases when students have to read English materials for their own special

subject.

Being able to read in English is very important as it is known that success in reading is

the most necessary because it is a basic tool of education. All the subjects in Elementary School

such as mathematics, science, language, and others depend on the ability to read. In high school

and college reading ability becomes even more important. Through reading we acquire new

ideas, obtain needed information, seek support for our ideas and broaden our interest. We can

also get the message that the writer had expressed. The ability to read helps to distinguish human
 being from other animal. And one of the purposes of teaching English of a foreign language to

Indonesian people is that they can read, grasp the idea and understand the book written in

English. To achieve those purposes, students need a lot of words of English to master. As

Norbert said vocabulary is one of the most important skills in a language .4 So to achieve
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the success in language teaching learning process especially English, vocabulary is one of

important factors in all language teaching.

Based on the description of vocabulary and reading above, it shows that they have

close relation. To get empirical data about it the writer will organize the test result to prove the

influence of student s achievement in vocabulary and reading. By getting the grades, the
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writer tries to find an answer that students achievement in vocabulary influencing reading.
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B. Limitation and Formulation of the Problem

To make the problem clear, it is necessary for the writer to limit the problem. The

limitation of the problem as the follows: The correlation between students achievement in
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vocabulary and reading ability.

Based on the statement above, he writer formulates the problem: is Whether "

students vocabulary has a correlation with reading in Second year students of MAN II
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Bekasi?

C. Objective of the Study

The objectives of the study as below:
a. The writer wants to know how far vocabulary supports the students in reading.

b. The writer wants to know whether students who have a good result in vocabulary test also

have a good result in reading.

D. Methodology of Research
This work is based on field research. In the field research, the writer carries out the

observation at MAN II Bekasi, and gives some test of vocabulary and reading, and then the test

calculated. At the same time the writer also does an interview to they are English teacher of that of
the second year. Library research applied through reading some books and theories relevant to

the topics.

After scoring of such test, the writer will calculate Coefficient Correlation. Then the

writer will have some concerning with the students score vocabulary and reading. The writer
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tries to determine that are there any correlation between students achievement in vocabulary
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and reading? These scores will use the formula of Pearson Product Moment Correlation

Coefficient.

E. Organization of the Study

This skripsi consist of four chapters. Chapter one is introduction, consisting of
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background of the study, limitation and formulation of the problem, the objective of the study,
methodology of research and organization of he study.

Chapter two is theoretical framework. That is explains vocabulary, definition of

vocabulary, kinds of vocabulary, teaching vocabulary. And also explains reading, definition of

reading, aims of reading, types of reading, reading comprehension, factors affecting

comprehensions, correlation between vocabulary and reading.

Chapter three is research methodology finding. It involves the purpose of study, place

and time of study, method of study, the technique of sample taking, the technique of data

collecting, the research Instrument, technique of data analysis. In research finding involves

the description of data, the analysis of data, and test of hypothesis.

Chapter four is conclusion and suggestion.
 CHAPTER II

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

A. Vocabulary
1. Definition of Vocabulary
In this chapter the writer wants to explain definition of vocabulary in order to

understand a language the learners have to understand the definition of vocabulary first. It is

difficult to make one definition of vocabulary. So, the writer tries to take it from some references.

Vocabulary is the Everest of language .1 For this reason, a person who wants to be able
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to communicate in a certain language has to master the vocabulary of that language for the first

time.

Vocabulary as one of the language aspects have to be learned when people are learning a

language. Good mastery of vocabulary is important for anyone who learns the language used in

listening, speaking, writing, and reading besides grammar. A learner of the foreign language

will speak fluently and accurately, write easily, or understand what he or she reads or hears if

he or she has enough vocabulary and has a capability of using it accurately. S. H. Burton said:

without a large vocabulary, it is impossible touse English language precisely and

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vividly .2According to Collier When a student has mastered the fundamental grammatical
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patterns of language, his next task is to master its vocabulary, or at least that of its vocabulary

that he need. "3

It is obvious that vocabulary is very important in learning a language, especially English,

because the English vocabulary is extremely large and varies as well. Therefore, it is highly

essential for English teachers to help their students in mastering vocabulary.

Norbert Schmitt gave the definition of vocabulary as follows. Vocabulary is a basis of a
language: it is very important to be mastered first. We cannot speak well and understand written
materials if we do not master it. Norbert Schmitt stated that no matter how successfully the
 sound of the foreign language is mastered, without words to express the wider range of
meanings, communication in a foreign language just cannot happen in any meaningful way.4
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines vocabulary means all the words
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that someone know, learn of uses, or the words that are typically used when talking about

particular subject or a list of words with the explanations of their meanings in a book for learning

foreign language .
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Webster has three definition of vocabulary as follows:

1. A list or collection of words and phrases usually alphabetically arranged and explained or
define.
2. A list or collection of terms or codes available for use.
3. A sum or stock of word employed by a language group, individual or work or in a field
knowledge.6
In some literature, we found the meaning of vocabulary. There are some definitions of
vocabulary. A.S. Hornby in Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English states
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that vocabulary is:

1. Total number of words which (with rules for combining them) make up a language.
2. (Range of) words known to, or used by, a person, in a trade, profession, etc.7
Another dictionary, Webster s New World College Dictionary, defined vocabulary
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as a list of words ands, often, phrases, abbreviations, inflectional form, etc, usually arranged in

alphabetical order and defined or otherwise identified, as in a dictionary or glossary. Vocabulary

is considered as the most important part in learning a language. It is impossible for the students

to read, write and speak a foreign language without having enough knowledge of the

vocabulary. Learning the new vocabulary does not only mean memorizing the form of the word but

also understand its meaning.

2. Kinds of Vocabulary
Vocabulary varies in the four skills of language, listening, writing, reading and speaking.

Generally, a student will absorb listening and speaking vocabulary before coming to the reading

and writing vocabulary. But in real situation, the process may change, especially in foreign
 language teaching. Reading vocabulary may become the first stage before processing the

speaking and listening vocabulary.

According to the basis of frequency, vocabulary can be divided into two kinds; there
are high frequency vocabulary and low frequency vocabulary.

a. High frequency vocabulary consists of words that are used very often in normal language, use in

all four skills and across the full range of situation of use. High frequency vocabulary consists of

2000 word families, which are about 87% of the running words in formal written text and more

than 95% of the words in informal spoken texts.

b. The low frequency vocabulary on the other hand, covers only small
proportion of the running words of a continuous text, it means that low
frequency vocabulary is rarely, used in common activity of English
language. This group includes well over 100.000 word families.
I.S.P Nation calls those vocabularies as motivated vocabulary and unmotivated

vocabulary. Motivated (active) vocabulary consists of all the words we need to use and feel no

reluctance in using in our everyday life. While, the unmotivated (passive) vocabulary can be

divided into two groups:

1. Words which are only partly understood and are not well known enough to use actively, and

2. Words which are not needed in daily communication.10

From the explanation above, we can conclude that active vocabulary is all the words used in

daily activities, partly while, passive vocabulary is all the words recognized and understood,

and not necessarily used. Jo Ann Aebersold and Mary Lee Field classify into active and passive.

a. Active vocabulary refers to put item which the learner can use appropriately

in speaking or writing, and it is also called as productive vocabulary,

although in fact it is more difficult to put into practice, its means that to use

the productive vocabulary, the students must to know how to pronounce it

 well, they must be familiar with collocation and understand the connotation meaning of the word.

This type is often used in speaking and writing skill.

b. Passive vocabulary refers to language items that can be recognized and understood in the

context of reading or listening and also called as receptive vocabulary.

Besides receptive and productive vocabulary, Jo Ann Aebersold and Marry Lee Field

also classified vocabulary into topic-specific or content- specific vocabulary. Topic-specific

or content-specific vocabulary is the words that appear frequently in a particular text because

they are related to the topic of the text.11 For example, in a text on the topic of ice cream, the

words flavor, texture, cone, toppings and carton might appear frequently. So, those words can we

call as topic-specific or content-specific vocabulary.

Meanwhile Djalinushah and Azimar Enong divided vocabulary into two, namely

general vocabulary and special vocabulary. General vocabulary is of the words that are used in

general. There is no limit of field and user. Special vocabulary is that the words that are used in

the certain field and job, profession of special science and technology.

From the explanation above, we know that every experts in every book is different in

classifying the kind of vocabulary, because every person has different way in showing and

telling their opinions and ideas. Some of them who emphasize vocabulary to the items

which the learners can use appropriately in speaking or writing and to the language items

which the learners can use appropriately in speaking or writing and to the language items

that can be recognized and understood in the context of reading and listening and some of

them classify vocabulary that they have made are different, but the point is the same, because

their classification are based on the different sides and aspects.

3. Teaching Vocabulary
 Because of the importance of vocabulary, it needs a serious attention in learning

vocabulary from both learners and teachers. It becomes a great challenging act for the teacher to

teach vocabulary, what kind of methods they use, what kind of vocabulary that they give, or

how many vocabularies that they should teach. There are some key principles of teaching

vocabulary:13

1. Build a large sight of vocabulary.

2. Integrated new words with previous words.
3. Provide a number of encounters with a word.
4. Promotes deep level of processing.

5. Facilitate imaging.
6. Make new word real by connecting them to the students word in some way.
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7. Use variety techniques.

8. Encourage independent learning strategies.
As it has already mentioned at the beginning that there is no right or best way to teach

English skill, it all depends on the type of students, the school system and curriculum, the

word that are targeted and many other factors. The choice of vocabulary to teach is also limited

to the learners need, experiences and interest.

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B. Reading
1. Definition of Reading
Reading knowledge is broadened and well-informed by reading. Reading is really

crucial our knowledge is usually broadened and informed by reading activities, and the
activity of reading can be found in the internet, book, etc.

Students should practice their reading more and more, so that their reading ability and

their reading experience will be improved. They may find difficulty and frustrating, but if they

keep practicing, they will have a good sense of English and will help them to grasp the total

meaning of the words. Another thing should be remembered in reading that students should not

open
a dictionary too often because it will slow down their reading rate and can make them bored.

If they find new words, they should try to guess the meanings by trying to find out any clue

words according to the context in the passages

There are a lot of definitions of reading. Linguists give definitions about reading, their
opinions about reading vary.
Some of them say reading is the process to get, to understand, to catch the content of the

reading. And also reading is a process to understand a written text which means extracting

the required information from it as efficiently as possible.

According to Walter R. Hill Reading is what the reader does to get the meaning he
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needs from textual sources. Meanwhile Guy L. Bond and Eva Bond Wagner explained the
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meaning of reading as the process of acquiring and authors meaning and of interpreting,
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evaluating, and effecting upon those meanings. " 15

F. Dubin explained the meaning of reading as reading is primarily a

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cognitive process, which means that the brain does most of the work. "16

Those statements above show the various definitions of reading, they mean generally.

Reading means a complex process of thinking in assigning meaning from printed materials

which involve most of the reader s intellectual act such as pronunciation and
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comprehension in order to receive ideas or information extended by the text. It can be seen

that reading is not only looking at word in the form of graphic symbols but also getting meaning

from word to word or line to line to understand what we read. It means that reading is a process

to understand the text content and to get information.

2. Aims of Reading
A person may read for many purposes, and purpose helps to understand more

what is read by people. If he is reading for pleasure or reading for pure recreation and

enjoyment, he may read either quickly or slowly based on the way he likes or feels. But if reads
 for studying or setting information such news, science or same line, which are part of his study or

assignment he does it very slowly and carefully.

According to Paul S. Anderson, there are seven aims of reading, reading for details

and fact, reading for main ideas, reading for sequence or organization, reading for inference,

reading for classifying, reading for evaluating and reading for comparing of contest

a. Reading for details and fact is reading to know what is done by the subject of the story

b. Reading for main ideas is reading to get the problem statement

c. Reading for sequence of organization is reading to know each part of the story

d. Reading for inference is reading to know what is the writer meant by its story

e. Reading for classifying is reading to find unusual things

f. Reading for evaluating is reading to know the value of the story
g. Reading for comparing or contest is reading to compare the way of life of the story with the way

of life of the reader.

Another author said that the aim of reading is:

a. Reading for pleasure
b. Reading for information (in order to find out something or in order to do something with the

information you get).18

Meanwhile Lester and Allice Crow classified two general purposes. These purposes

includes; Leisure-time reading and more serious reading.19

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Lester and Allice Crow, How to Study: to Learn Better, Pass Examination, Get better Grades (USA:
Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1976) p.53
1. Leisure-time reading. It is reading for enjoyment which may vary in to follow your favorite

sport, comic, article, and movie program.

2. More serious reading. It is reading to study for a goal such as to obtain factual information and

solve problems.

3. Types of Reading
Depending on the purposes of reading it also can be classified into two types of activities,

intensive and extensive reading.20

a. Intensive reading:
Intensive reading means reading shorter texts to extract specific information. This

activity is likely more to emphasize the accuracy activity involving reading for detail. The

process of scanning takes a more prominent role here than skimming. Reader is trying to absorb

all the information given, example: Reading dosage instruction for medicine.

b. Extensive reading:
Reader deals with a longer text as a whole, which requires the ability to understand the

component part and their contribution the overall meaning, usually for ones own pleasure. This is a
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fluency activity, mainly involving global understanding. Example: Reading a newspaper, article,

short story or novel.

In other words Francoise Grellet defines that skimming is quickly running one s eyes
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over a text to get the gist of it. While, scanning is quickly going through a text to find a
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particular piece of information. "21

So if a person wants to get an address, phone number, a date in a book over paragraph in

order to locate a special piece of information, that activities is called scanning but if he reads all
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the passage in order to know about what it deals about his reading, that is called skimming .
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In skimming a reader must ask himself what the text is talked about. He must move

his eyes quickly over the text, looking especially at the main title, the beginning and the end,

and the first sentence of paragraph. In scanning the reader must ask himself weather or not the
 text contains what he is looking for and if any, he must find where is located, he moves also

his eyes more or less quickly over the text for specific items.
4. Reading Comprehension
The essence of reading act is comprehension: it becomes a primary challenge in teaching or
learning of reading skill. In order to learn or understand the massage of the author, the
students are hoped to have the ability to comprehend the written textbook.
Comprehension means understanding the meaning or the point of a topic, F. Dubin, D.E
Eskey and W. Grabe show a more specific explanation, comprehension means relating what
we do not know or new information, which is not random collection of facts but a theory of a
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world in each of our heads.22

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Reading with comprehension means to understand what has been read. Dorothy Rubin

states that reading comprehension is a complex intellectual process involving a number of

abilities. The two major abilities concern word meanings and reasoning with verbal concepts.23

English has been taught as a foreign language in our country, however, it does not mean that the

result of teaching English in our school is satisfactory, despite the fact that it is taught

continuously for six years at the high school, three years at SMP, and three years at SMA.

Ramelan say that most SMA graduates are still very poor in their reading comprehension,

since they cannot usually read or understand articles in English dailies.24

There are different lists of skills that they feel are basic to understanding. The
skills usually listed are as follows:25
1. React to the sensory images (visual, kinesthetic, taste, smell) suggested by words.
2. Interpret verbal connotations and denotations.
3. Recognize and understand the writer s purpose.
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4. Determine whether the text affirms, denies, or fails to express an opinion about a supposed fact
or condition.
5. Identify the antecedents of such words as who, some, or they.
5. Factors Affecting Comprehensions
 As it has already been shown, reading comprehension need some intellectual ability
to master it. There are six basic factors that influence the students ability in comprehending
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written materials.
a. Background Experiences
Students who have little experience may have some difficulties in comprehending many

ideas and activities with which other children are familiar before they learn in school. For an

example, a student who never sees or hears about the mountain, and in some occasions

dealing with it will find the story hard to follow, so he must have experiences in his

background that enables him to bring personal meaning to the events an feelings if the story.
b. Intellectual Abilities
Second aspect of comprehension is the students ability to think, it all depends on his
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intellectual development. Although the teacher gives the same textbook and same purpose of
reading, the result of reading may
be different. The number of ideas that they understand and the depth of their understanding
will be largely dependent upon their general capacity to learn. The slow learning or dull-normal
students cannot be expected to show same reaction or gain the same appreciations as the bright
students when they read together for pleasure or to gain information.
c. Language Abilities
The third aspect is the students language abilities, including semantics or word
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meaning and grasp of syntax. Understanding of semantics comes from experience with
words in various, personally meaningful settings. A grasp of syntax is needed to recover the
structure of the language, so the students have to master syntax which links deep and surface
structure.
d. A f fe c t io n
Such as personal interest, motivation, attitudes, beliefs, feelings; students will attend a

better understanding to the story about a topic if they find personally interesting. The cause of

greater understanding is also affected by reader s attitude and beliefs, readers could
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understand materials better when it matches their own attitudes and beliefs on a topic. This

affection is usually linked to each other.

e. The purpose of reading
This fifth factor also determines the comprehension ability, student could also have

difficulties to understand the story if he reads it with no particular purpose in mind.

Comprehension is always directed and controlled by the needs and purposes of an

individual.26 If that so, they must establish their own purpose before reading and commits the

entire story to memory.

f. Skills of comprehending
Another factor which influences the depth and the amount of comprehension is the

skills that the students have developed for that purpose; the ability to comprehend develops

gradually from the simple to the complex skills. The teacher give a balanced program, include

direct teaching of techniques which will aid the student in developing attitudes and skill of

thoughtful, purposeful reading.

6. Correlation between Vocabulary and Reading

One reason why children find reading in some subject fields difficult because of their lack of

vocabulary. Whereas in fact of vocabulary is the most important thing in reading skill. Most of us

if we find the difficult word, we still just continue our reading in the hope that the word we read

is not really important or that its meaning will become clear later on. But sometimes these word
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that we passed usually as the key of our reading and understanding. We can not catch and

grasp the idea from our reading as well as possible. So looking up the difficult words in

dictionary is better for us.

 CHAPTER III

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND FINDINGS

A. Research Methodology
1. The Purpose of Study
The purpose of this study is to get empirical data about the correlation between students '

achievement and reading ability, at the second grade students of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri

(MAN) II Narogong , Bekasi.

2. Operational Definitions of Variables

There are two kinds of variables in this research, the first variable is the students '

vocabulary achievement score which is taken by how many vocabularies that they know

from the test given; it is considered as independent variable (variable X). The second

variable is their Reading ability score which is taken from their comprehension in reading with

the texts; we considered it as dependent variable (variable Y).

The students vocabulary achievement from the test of vocabulary that is carried out by
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English book for Senior High School and work sheet (LKS- Lembar Kerja Siswa), while reading

comprehension ability was carried out by the work sheet (LKS-Lembar Kerja Siswa).
3. Place and Time of the Study
The research was conducted at MAN II Bekasi that is located on Jalan Bojong Asih V

Perum Narogong Indah Rawa Lumbu, Bekasi.

The research was carried out from July 24th up to 1st August, 2006. After getting an

agreement of the school principal and then consult to an English teacher who is teach at the

second year of IPS (Social Sciences) of MAN II Beaks.

4. Method of Study
In completing the data, the writer used the field research. In the field research, the writer

conducted the research for the students at the second year of MAN II Bekasi. The writer gave a

test to the students and asked them to answer the question that she made.

This research uses the correlation method, with the analysis of Product Moment according

to Karl Pearson.1 It is usually used to correlate two variables based on its correlation

coefficient value. It is useful to describe and find out the significance of the correlation

between those two variables, variable X and variable Y.

5. The Technique of Sample Taking

The writer takes the whole students of IPS II at MAN II Bekasi because they have
enough knowledge and motivation in their study and their reading ability is also good enough.

There are 123 students they are of IPA I, IPA II, IPS I, and IPS II, that placed on second

year of MAN II Bekasi. From those classes the writer took one class of class IPS II they are

40 students as an experiment class and also as sample of this study. The percentage of the

sample in this research is 33%.

6. The Technique of Data Collecting
In completing the data, the next step of this research is collecting the data; the function
of data collecting is to determine the result of the research. In collecting data, the writer uses
some techniques.
a. Field Research
 In this research, the writer gave a test to the students of IPS II at MAN II Bekasi. This
test was focused on the vocabulary test and reading test.
b. Test ing
Since the writer wanted to investigate the correlation between two kinds of test,

vocabulary and reading comprehension, so the writer uses test method. The test is divided

into two parts; the first is vocabulary, which consists of 20 items. The second is reading

comprehension, which also consists of 20 items.

7. The Research Instrument
The research instrument plays an important role to collect data. The instrument used in

this research is an objective test, and the writer used one type of objective test, which is

multiple-choice type. Multiple-choice type can be scored objectively and can measure learning

out come directly.

In this research, the test consisted of 40 items with five alternatives. The alternatives

include one correct answer and four wrong answers. There are four passages and from each

passage the writer makes a question on reading comprehension including question of

vocabulary, main idea, detail, not detail, and inference. The test of vocabulary is not only

based on the contents of the passage in the textbook but also taken from another book, which

is correlated to their study and syllabus.

From these tests, the writer takes all questions that have significant correlation with the

students compulsory book, like New Light Contextual Approach to Learning English for Year
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XI (Published by PT Pabelan) and work sheet (LKS- Lembar Kerja Siswa) kelas 2 (Published

by PT Hayati). So the questions of the test calculated are relevant to the objective of the course.
8. Technique of Data Analysis
To find out the influence of the students achievement vocabulary to their reading
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ability, the writer uses a Pearson product moment correlations.

The correlation technique is an analysis technique to evaluate hypothesis concerning correlation

between two variables that are examined statistically.

In the correlation technique, the variables are compared to know whether the

correlation is very significant or it only happen by chance. The formula of product moment

correlation is:

rxy = the correlation coefficient

∑xy = the sum of the multiplication between variable X score and
variable Y score.
∑x 2
= the sum of standard deviation from Variable X
∑y 2
= the sum of standard deviation from Variable Y
B. Research Findings
1. The Description of Data
As it has been mentioned in chapter one, the writer used the field research. She held

field research by taking the scores of 40 students as an experiment test and analyzed those

scores in order to find out whether there is any correlation between students' achievement

vocabulary and their reading

ability by using the Pearson r formula. So, in total there are 40 scores because the samples had 2

set of scores.

The first score is vocabulary that consists of 20 items and the second one is reading

comprehension ability that also consists of 20 items, the scoring is 5 for each correct answer

and 0 for the wrong answer. The data of vocabulary and reading test score result can be seen in

the following tables. (The form of the test and the result score can be seen in appendix).3

2. The Analysis of Data

Having finished the field research by using vocabulary test and reading comprehension test,
the writer uses statistic calculation of the Pearson Product Moment Formula to analyze the data
from the result of vocabulary test and reading comprehension test. The following table
shows the calculation result based on the theory.
3. Test of Hypothesis
 The writer has mentioned the hypothesis before from the hypothesis, the writer have
criteria of test hypothesis:
If ro > rt The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and Null Hypothesis (Ho) is
rejected. It means there is correlation between students achievement in vocabulary and reading
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ability.
If ro < rt The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is rejected and Null Hypothesis (Ho) is
accepted. It means there is correlation between students achievement in vocabulary and reading
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ability.

According to the table of significance, it can be seen that df 38 is closer to r table df

40, so the writer took the r table df 40, we get point 0,3 04 on r table for the 5% significance

degree, and point 0,3 93 on 1% significance degree. So it means point 0.99 on ro is very high

than r table (0.99 > 0.304 and 0.99 > 0,393), from that result, we can conclude that null

hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.

In conclusion, there is a correlation between students achievement in vocabulary and there
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is significant.
 Based on the result of statistics calculation above, the correlation between the two

variables X and Y is positive, it is 0.99. In another word, the correlation between the students
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achievement vocabulary and their reading ability is considered very high as seen in the table

above.
 CHAPTER IV
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
Based on the data described above, the comparison between students achievement in
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vocabulary and reading ability, are obtained that the value of ro is 1.00 the degree of freedom

(df) is 38. In the table of the degree of significant of 5% and 1% the value of the degree of

significant is 0.304 and 0.393. It means that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, and it can be

concluded that a correlation between students achievement in vocabulary and reading ability is
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significant.

The writer also concludes that most students are still weak not only in their

achievement of vocabulary, but also in reading comprehension ability. For example using

dictionary is very helpful for them to find out the meaning of words. The writer also finds out

that the correlation between vocabulary and reading is significant. So, both of them cannot be

separated each other.

B. Suggestion
Based on the conclusion above, it is suggested that in reading ability and in vocabulary
are:
1. English teacher is a motivator and stimulator. The teacher should support the students expectation
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about reading and arouse their interest to increase their reading comprehension.
2. A teacher should know and able to implement a good method in teaching reading, because it is
quite complicated to learn.
3. The teacher should encourage the students to have and use dictionary as a tool to help them with
difficult words.
4. The teacher should also give a high motivation to the students to read more and more English
literature to increase their vocabulary level.
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