THE CORRELATION BETWEEN ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY SIZE AND READING

COMPREHENSION ABILITY

THESIS

By: Alma Ahdina

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2018

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Alhamdulillah, all praises to Allah SWT for all His mercy and blessings so

that the researcher could finish this undergraduate thesis. Shalawat and salam may

always be upon Rasulullah SAW, his family, his colleagues and people who

follows his ways.

A lot of guidance, support and encouragement from the researcher’s

advisors Dr. Hartono, M.Pd and Laela Hikmah Nurbatra, M.A, M.EdLead in the

process of completing this thesis. For that, and for their abundant patience in

guiding her, the researcher would like to express her utter gratitude. The

researcher also would like to thank the lecturer who taught Intermediate Reading

Comprehension course and the third semester students from class C and D for

their time and cooperation during the research.

Many greatly dear people have also helped in finishing this thesis; Dodi

Andre Wiranata who was always more than willing to lend his ears and help

however he could, Hayuningtyas Sri Puspaningrum with her countless support

and suggestions that were very useful for the making and revising of this thesis, 6

fellow Thesis February fighters (Yusuf, Hesti, Allisan, Cici and Ajeng), fellow

Weebs (Yuuchan, Chrona and Icha), fellow BKMA part-timers, everyone from

ELED A 2013, and a lot more friends who cannot be mentioned one by one. May

Allah answer their kindness however He sees fit.

Most of all, the researcher would like to show her appreciation to her father,

Johansyah and her mother, Nuril Huriah for it was all because of them the

TABLE OF CONTENTS

APPROVAL ........................................................................................... iii

LETTER OF AUTHENTICITY .............................................................. v

ABSTRACT ........................................................................................... vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS..................................................................... vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................ ix

LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................. xii

LIST OF APPENDICES ......................................................................... xiii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study ................................................................... 1

1.2 Statement of Problems ....................................................................... 5

1.3 Purposes of Study .............................................................................. 5

1.4 Scope and Limitation ......................................................................... 5

1.5 Significances of Study ....................................................................... 6

1.6 Definition of Key Terms.................................................................... 6

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 The Teaching and Learning of English .............................................. 8

2.2 Reading Comprehension.................................................................... 9

2.2.1 Reading Comprehension Test ......................................................... 10

2.2.1.1 Matching Test ... .......................................................................... 11

2.2.1.2 True/False ................................................................................... 11

2.2.1.3 Multiple Choice ........................................................................... 11

2.2.1.4 Completion Items ........................................................................ 12

2.2.1.5 Rearrangement Items ................................................................... 12

2.2.1.6 Cloze Procedure .......................................................................... 13

2.2.1.7 Open-ended and Miscellaneous Items .......................................... 13

2.2.1.8 Cursory Reading .......................................................................... 13

2.3 Vocabulary ........................................................................................ 14

2.3.1 Types of Vocabulary ...................................................................... 15

2.3.2 Types of Vocabulary Test ............................................................... 16

2.3.2.1 Multiple Choice ........................................................................... 16

2.3.2.2 Sets (Associated Words) .............................................................. 17

2.3.2.3 Matching ..................................................................................... 17

2.3.2.4 Completion .................................................................................. 17

2.3.2.5 More Objective Items .................................................................. 17

2.3.3 Vocabulary Size Test ...................................................................... 18

2.4 The Correlation between Vocabulary Size and Reading Comprehension

Ability ............................................................................................... 20

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

3.1 Research Design ................................................................................ 21

3.2 Population and Sampling ................................................................... 21

3.3 Data Collection ................................................................................. 22

3.3.1 Technique and Instrument .............................................................. 22

3.3.2 Procedure ....................................................................................... 25

3.4 Data Analysis .................................................................................... 25

CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

4.1 Research Findings ............................................................................. 26

4.1.1 The Students’ Vocabulary Size Test Result .................................... 26

4.1.2 The Students’ Reading Comprehension Test Result ........................ 27

4.1.3 The Result of the Hypothesis .......................................................... 28

4.2 Discussion ......................................................................................... 30

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusion ........................................................................................ 33

5.2 Suggestions ....................................................................................... 34

REFERENCES ....................................................................................... 35

APPENDICES

LIST OF TABLES

Table 3.1 Percentage Conversion Chart ................................................... 25

Table 4.1 TOEFL Reading Score Interpretation ....................................... 28

Table 4.2 Correlation Analysis Output .................................................... 29

Table 4.3 Vocabulary Size Needed to Have 98% Word Coverage ........... 28

LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix A: The Reading Comprehension Test

Appendix B: The Vocabulary Size Test

Appendix C: Vocabulary Size Test Result

Appendix D: Reading Comprehension Test Result

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