THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING HABIT IN ENGLISH AND VOCABULARY MASTERY
Abstract
Reading becomes one of the most important skills in learning English
because it declared in the Holy Quran, chapter (surah) Al-Alaq regarding its
importance the students need to improve their vocabulary mastery because there
are some vocabularies in every part of reading. In order, the students need to build
good reading habit in English because it was beneficial to improve vocabulary
mastery. As the fact, it was not easy for the students to build good reading habit
because they still difficult to understand the language. Then, this research was to
find out the correlation between senior high school students’ reading habit and
their vocabulary mastery.
This research used quantitative approach with correlational design. The
respondent of this research were 108 students from 150 students’ grad XI in one
senior high school at Yogyakarta. The questionnaire and vocabulary test as the
instruments used to measure the data. The first finding showed that senior high
school students’ reading habit in English in low category because the mean value
was 12.65. Then, the vocabulary mastery was in low category because the mean
value was 5.16. Furthermore, the H1 or there is a correlation between reading
habit in English and vocabulary mastery is accepted because the significant value
was 0.019 and lower than 0.015. It means that between reading habit in English
and vocabulary mastery has positive significant low correlation and reading habit
is main point to improve students’ vocabulary mastery.