Correlation among students’ reading motivation and vocabulary size toward reading comprehension on expository text

Aina, Elita Nur (2019) Correlation among students’ reading motivation and vocabulary size toward reading comprehension on expository text. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Palangka Raya.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the correlation among students’ reading motivation and vocabulary size toward reading comprehension on expository text. The study was carried out on fourth semester of English Education Study Program at IAIN Palangka Raya.

The design of the study was correlational design in quantitative approach. The population of this research was fourth semester students of English Education Program at IAIN Palangka Raya in which consists of 48 students chosen by using purposive sampling. in order to collected the data, the researcher was used questionnaire and test. The data was analyzed with Pearson product moment correlation.

The result showed that F observed was higher than F table (11.382 > 3.20) it means that there was a positive correlation among reading motivation, vocabulary size and reading comprehension of fourth semester students of English Education Program at IAIN Palangka Raya. The alternative (Ha) hypotheses was accepted and the null hypotheses was rejected. It means that reading motivation and vocabulary size give influence to students’ reading motivation.

Abstract

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan korelasi antara motivasi membaca dan kosa kata siswa terhadap pemahaman membaca pada teks ekpositori. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada mahasiswa/i semester empat jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris di IAIN Palangka Raya.

Teknik penelitian ini adalah korelasi dengan pendekatan kuantitatif. Populasi penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa/i semester 4 jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris di IAIN Palangka Raya yang terdiri dari 48 mahasiswa/i yang dipilih menggunakan purposive sampling. Untuk mengumpulkan data, peneliti menggunakan angket dan tes. Data dianalisis menggunakan korelasi Pearson Product Moment.

Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Fobserved lebih besar daripada Ftable (11.382 > 3.20) yang artinya ada korelasi antara motivasi membaca, kosa kata, dan pemahaman membaca pada mahasiswa semester empat jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris di IAIN Palangka Raya. Alternative hipotesis (Ha) diterima dan hipotesis nol (Ho) ditolak. Motivasi membaca dan kosa kata memberikan pengaruh terhadap pemahaman membaca siswa.

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