The Correlation Between Student’s English Lexical Meanings Mastery and English Reading Comprehension (A Correlational Study on Fifth Semester English Students at Iain Curup)

Levinia, Levinia and Hidayah, Jumatul and Suhermanto, Hadi (2022) The Correlation Between Student’s English Lexical Meanings Mastery and English Reading Comprehension (A Correlational Study on Fifth Semester English Students at Iain Curup). Sarjana thesis, IAIN Curup.

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This research aimed to measure the fifth semester TBI students’ English lexical mastery, to measure the fifth semester TBI students’ English reading comprehension, and to examine the correlation between the fifth semester TBI students’ English lexical mastery and their English reading comprehension. The correlation as the foregoing was grounded in a pair of hypotheses, namely H1: There is a positive correlation between students’ lexical meaning mastery and reading comprehension, and H0: There is no a positive correlation between students’ lexical meaning mastery and reading comprehension. This research applied a correlational research with English lexical meaning mastery as the variable X and English reading comprehension as the variable Y. The oriented population was 65 fifth TBI students at IAIN Curup. By assigning a convenient sampling technique, 35 students were officially recruited as the samples because they voluntarily filled in and returned this research’s instruments to the researcher. To collect the data, there were two instruments of this research, namely the English lexical meaning test and English reading comprehension test. The data were analyzed statistically by employing some steps, such as descriptive statistics to answer the first and second research questions, normality test as the prerequisite test alongside the determinant of correlational formula, and correlation coefficient formula to measure the correlation between English lexical meaning mastery and English reading comprehension. The result of this research were: first, the fifth semester TBI students’ English lexical meaning mastery was categorized in adequate level or in medium level, it is shown that the data from the questionnaire is 57.7%. Second, the fifth semester TBI students’ English reading comprehension was categorized in the same level as lexical meaning mastery, namely still in medium level. It is proven from the data of questionnaire 55.54%. Then, the result of the third research question shown there was a positive correlation between English lexical mastery and English reading comprehension where this research shown that the data as follows rxy (0.4215) > rtable (0.2746). The correlation was positive because rxy (0.4215) was categorized as a positive number or it went forward to (+1). Compared with the table of interpretation of r value, the result indicated that the correlation was medium because rxy (0.4215) was in the range of (0.400 – 0.599). To sum up, with a medium correlation, there was a positive correlation between English lexical mastery and English reading comprehension of the fifth semester TBI students at IAIN Curup. Therefore, it could say that the Ha there is a possitive correlation between English lexical meaning mastery and reading comprehension was accepted, and the H0 there is no positive correlation was rejected. Keywords: A correlational research, English lexical meaning mastery, English reading comprehension

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