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php/jell A CORRELATION BETWEEN VOCABULARY AND SENTENCE
STRUCTURE MASTERY TOWARDS READING COMPREHENTION OF
PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN WEST JAKARTA
Julyanta br Sitepu Foreign Language High School (STIBA) IEC Bekasi.
Indonesia E-mail: bekasi201@gmail.
APA Citation: Sitepu.
B, .
A Correlation between Vocabulary and Sentence Structure Mastery towards Reading Comprehension of Private University Students in West Jakarta.
Journal of English Language and literature, 3.
, 11-19.
doi: 10.
37110/jell.
Received: 15-07-2018 Accepted: 01-08-2018 Published:01-09-2018 Abstract: The research is conducted to prove a correlation between vocabulary and sentence structure mastery towards reading comprehension of private university students.
The methodology used in this research is a survey of regression and correlation analysis which relates between the data and correlation between vocabulary and sentence structure mastery towards studentsAo reading The research uses three variables, two independent variables .
ocabulary and sentence structure master.
, and one dependent variable .
eading The data is collected by using vocabulary, sentence structure and reading tests.
The research found that: .
There is a significant correlation between vocabulary and sentence structure mastery towards studentsAo reading comprehension, proven by the result of Sig.
000 < 0.
05 and F-test = 15.
There is a significant correlation between vocabulary mastery towards studentsAo reading comprehension, proven by the result of Sig.
008 < 0.
05 and t-test = There is a significant correlation between sentence structure mastery towards studentsAo reading comprehension, proven by the result of Sig.
011 < 0.
and t-test = 2.
Keywords: Vocabulary Mastery, structure Mastery.
Reading Comprehension.
INTRODUCTION
English is one of the most challenging subjects for the students in university since it is a foreign language in Indonesia.
Some factors that make English challenging are.
StudentsAo vocabulary mastery is low.
For that reason, the students are not confident to express their opinion in English.
Sentence structures in English are different from the sentence structures in Indonesian.
For examples, sentence structures in Indonesian uses the same sentence structures for past, present, and future tenses.
In English, tenses use different forms of verbs for past, present, and future tenses.
The Julyanta br Sitepu A Correlation between Vocabulary and Sentence Structure Mastery towards Reading Comprehension of Private University Students in West Jakarta.
students have limited opportunities to practice their English in their everyday life activities.
Vocabulary is one of the most important components of a language in order to communicate with people both for speaking and for writing.
communicate well in English, the students have to use proper vocabulary in certain situations to express their Therefore, vocabulary mastery is a mandatory for the students.
Hiebert and Kamil .
said AuFailure to distinguish among the different kinds of vocabulary can lead to confusion and disagreementA vocabulary is the knowledge of meanings of words Au.
Hence, the students have to build their vocabulary to improve their skill of reading Besides mastery, the students also have to learn how to construct sentences using correct sentence structures.
Their ability to use sentence structures properly will help them to read and understand paragraphs in English Without the sentence structure or grammar mastery, the students will fail to understand materials they read.
Ohsima and Hogue .
AuA sentence is a group of words that you use to communicate your ideas.
Every sentence is formed from one or more clauses and expressed a complete thoughtAy.
When the words are not constructed correctly, it will be confusing and difficult to understand.
Reading is also an important activity in process of language learning since the students in universities have to read many references in English.
For that reason, the students are required to master the reading comprehension skill.
Reading comprehending an idea, thought, or story of a text.
To improve the studentsAo reading comprehension skill is important in teaching learning Reading text also gives the students opportunities study not only reading comprehension, but also many other aspects of language learning Jeremy Harmer .
AuReading texts also provide opportunities to study language:
vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, and the way we construct sentences, paragraphs and textsAy.
The students can start reading simple sentences and continue to read more complex sentences after they have better understanding about the text they read.
As Murni Djamal and friends .
AuImproving reading skill sometimes depends on the ability of the reader to handle a sentence or a passage.
Simple sentences are easy to understand, but compound and complex sentences need strategies to understand the authorAos messageAy.
This research is essential to help the students to improve their vocabulary and structure mastery as well as their reading comprehension Reading is a receptive skill and it is about interpreting information in the written text.
The readers have to be able to grasp messages that the writer intended to convey.
Sanggam Siagian .
AuThe receptive written language skill is called Journal of English Language and literature Volume 3.
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AuThe comprehension is to seek answers to questions found in the written textsAy.
Furthermore.
Samsu Somadoyo AuReading intellectual process that has two main aspects, understanding the meaning of the words and the ability to think about the verbal conceptAy.
Based on the explanation above, the readers actively respond and process the information given in the text in order to comprehend the messages written by the author.
Vocabulary important role in the successfulness of Whether communication runs effectively and efficiently, it depends on the vocabulary chosen at the time of People who know how to use appropriate vocabulary in the correct contexts will attract listeners.
They communicatively to avoid the Through the words spoken, people are able to expresses their thought, feeling and ideas.
Harmer AuIf structures make up the skeleton of language, then it is the vocabulary that provides the vital organs and the Ay The someone acquires, the easier he/she expresses the ideas.
It also helps him/her to comprehend the written texts without having much problem.
Tarigan .
AuThe quality of language acquisition is related to the quantity and quality of It is the skill of a reader or a group of readers to interpret information transferred by a writerAy.
Reading also involves a dynamic As David Nunan .
AuReading is a dynamic process in which the text elements interact factors outside the textAy.
Meanwhile Jeremy Harmer, .
AuReading is an exercise dominated by the eyes and the brain.
The eyes receive messages and the brain then has to work out the significance of these messages.
Ay The most important process of teaching is achieving the objective, and the objective of teaching is to make the students able to comprehend Elizabeth Walter wrote in the Cambridge Advanced LearnerAos Dictionary AuComprehension is the ability to understand completely and be familiar with a situation, facts.
Ay Arif Sukadi Sadiman .
AuComprehension is an ability of someone to interpret, paraphrase, translate, and state information he/she gets with his/her own wordsAy.
Based on the definition above, comprehension is the ability to understand concept of a certain material or issue and able to reconstruct it without changing the Reading comprehension is related to the ability of understanding the information found in the written text and also comprehending message Francoise Grellet .
AuUnderstanding a written text means extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possibleAy.
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vocabulary masteryAy.
Therefore, vocabulary building without doubt is necessary for the students to make them able to participate more in using English.
The most important part of learning foreign languages is knowing the sentence structures well.
Using the correct sentence structures will make the communication run smoothly and The messages being delivered by both speaker and writer will be through to listeners or readers with minimum problems.
A sentence structure is a group of words which at least has one subject and one verb with meaningful Subject of the sentence is the topic being discussed.
It can be people, things, places, or activities.
Meanwhile, the verb is an activity being done by the subject of the Cambridge Advanced LearnerAos Dictionary explains.
AuA sentence is a group of words, usually containing a verb, which expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction or exclamation and starts with a capital letter when writtenAy.
Oshima Hogue .
AuA sentence is a group of words that you use to communicate your ideas.
Every sentence is formed from one or more clauses and expresses a complete thoughtAy.
From the definition given above, it shows how essential the sentence structure mastery is for the students in campus.
With sufficient sentence structure mastery, they are able to comprehend the written texts much better.
Thus, the students Aoparticipation in learning English will METHOD The research will use the methodology of survey with correlational analysis.
Jack R.
Fraenkel dan Norman E.
Wallen .
AyIn a simple relationships between only two variables, although investigations of more than two variables are commonAy.
The data and information are collected from respondents in a private university in west Jakarta by giving respondents tests.
There will be three variables used in this reseach.
The variables are:
Vocabulary mastery (X.
Sentence structure mastery (X.
Reading (Y).
Vocabulary mastery is the ability of knowing, understanding, and using words appropriately and correctly when listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a certain language.
The data is collected by giving a vocabulary test in the form of multiple The sentence structure mastery is an ability to use sentence or correctly in speaking or writing.
The grammar test will be given to the respondents to collect the data needed.
The test is about verb tenses and sentence patterns .
imple, compound, and complex sentence.
Reading comprehension is the ability to grasp the information and fathom the meaning of the authorAos messages given in the written texts.
The reading comprehension test is Journal of English Language and literature Volume 3.
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The test questions are main ideas of the text, information details, unstated detail information, and vocabulary in context.
This research uses the formula of correlations to test the validity of the instruments.
To validate the questions, the research will use Pearson Product Moment Correlation in Anas Sudijono .
To test the level of significant for the correlation between the vocabulary and sentence structure mastery towards reading comprehension in this research will also use Analysis Regression in SPSS program.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The research findings are obtained from the variables of the instruments tested, reading comprehension (Y), vocabulary mastery (X.
, and sentence structure mastery (X.
Each instrument consists of 30 questions.
Reading Comprehension (Y) The data of reading comprehension are collected from 66 university students as the samples of the research.
Minimum score is 60, maximum score is 95, mean 94, median 80.
00, mode 80 and standard deviation is 8.
Table1.
Reading Comprehension Table Statistics Reading Comprehension Valid Missing Mean Median Mode Std.
Deviation Minimum Maximum is 95, mean is 80.
38, median 80.
mode 80 and standard deviation is Vocabulary Mastery (X.
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Table2.
Vocabulary Mastery Statistics Vocabulary Mastery Valid Missing Mean Median Mode Std.
Deviation Minimum Maximum is 95, mean is 80.
23, median 80.
mode 80 and standard deviation is Sentence Structure Mastery (X.
The data of sentence structure mastery is taken from 66 university students.
Minimum score is 60, maximum score Table3.
Sentence Structure Mastery Statistics Sentence Structure Mastery Valid Missing Mean Median Mode Std.
Deviation Minimum Maximum Table4.
Multiple Coefficient Correlation Test Variable X1 and X2 towards Y.
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Error of Square the Estimate Predictors: (Constan.
Vocabulary Mastery.
Sentence Structure Mastery Table5.
The Result of Level Significant of Coefficient Regression Test Variable X1 and X2 towards Y.
ANOVAa Sum of Squares Model Regression Mean Square Sig.
Residual Total Dependent Variable: Reading Comprehension Predictors: (Constan.
Vocabulary Mastery.
Sentence Structure Mastery Table6.
The Result of Multiple Regression Test Variable X1 and X2 towards Y.
Model Coefficientsa Unstandardized Coefficients Std.
Error (Constan.
Vocabulary Mastery Sentence Structure Mastery Dependent Variable: Reading Comprehension Standardize Coefficients Beta Sig.
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From the table 5 above, the correlation between vocabulary and sentence structure mastery towards reading comprehension is significant.
Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted.
It is proven by the score of Sig.
05 and F-test = 15.
Meanwhile, regression linearity shows that ycUC = 347 0.
316 X1 0.
290 X2.
means when the score of one variable, vocabulary or sentence structure mastery, increases about X1 = 0.
and X2 = 0.
290, it will give a reading comprehension.
From table 6 above, it shows the correlation between vocabulary comprehension is significant.
Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted.
It is proven by the score of Sig.
05 and t-test = 2.
From table 4 also proves that vocabulary mastery correlates in contributing about 32.
towards reading comprehension.
Furthermore, the variable vocabulary mastery towards reading comprehension will be tested using a formula below:
R2 = Score yuycu1yc x Partial Correlation Score .
cycu1yc ) x 100 % R2 = 0.
333 x 0.
499 x 100 % = 16.
From the calculation above, it is stated that the contribution of vocabulary mastery improves the reading comprehension about 16.
Table 6 shows that the sentence structure mastery contributes significantly towards the reading Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted.
It is proved from the score of Sig.
0,011 < 0.
05 and t-test = 2.
The contribution of the variable of sentence structure mastery can be formulated as follows:
R2 = Score yuycu2yc x Partial Correlation Score .
cycu2yc ) x 100 % R2 = 0.
318 x 0.
492 x 100 % = 15.
From the calculation above, it can be interpreted that the contribution of sentence structure mastery will improve the reading comprehension CONCLUSION There is a significant correlation between vocabulary and sentence structure mastery towards reading It is proven by the score of Sig.
000 < 0.
05 and F-test = The contribution is about There is a significant It is proven by the score of Sig.
008 < 0.
05 and t-test = It contributes about 16.
The sentence structure mastery contributes significantly towards the reading comprehension.
It is proven from the score of Sig.
0,011 < 0.
and t-test = 2.
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