Correlational Study on Junior High School Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Their Reading Comprehension

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Vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension are supposed to be closely related. Many researchers said vocabulary mastery would determine reading comprehension. The objective of this research is to know whether there is a correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading comprehension at eight grade of SMPN 3 Sawoo. The subject of study is all students from VIII-A class. They are 20 students. The method used in this study is quantitative method and the design of the research is correlation design. The instrument to collect the data is test. The researcher uses the product moment correlation formula to analyze the data. The result of this study shows that there is a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their reading comprehension. It is proved by the r_xy (0.822) is higher than r_table in the degree of significant 5% (0.468). It is considered that null hypothesis (H₀) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (H_a) is accepted.