THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MASTERY IN VOCABULARY AND THEIR ABILITY IN COMPREHENDING AN ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE (ESP) TEXT.

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Vocabulary is one of the important things in English learning that can’t be conveyed by people. For gaining a good ability in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, people need to have good vocabulary mastery. That’s the reason why this part becomes the basic need in language learning and when the researcher found that some of her students with good vocabulary mastery or poor vocabulary mastery find difficulty in comprehending a text especially an ESP text, then the correlation between vocabulary mastery and comprehending text was chosen to be the theme.

The research was purposed to find out whether there was any significant correlation or not between students’ mastery in vocabulary and their ability in comprehending English for Specific Purpose (ESP) Text. The sample of this research was the first semester students. As the instrument of the research, the objective vocabulary test and comprehension test were used. To analyze the data, it used the Product Moment Correlation of Pearson formulae.

The result showed that the students’ mean score in vocabulary mastery test was 26.25 while the comprehension test mean score was 41.05. The result also showed that there was a significant relation with the significant level of 0.7. So, the hypothesis proposed in this research was accepted. In conclusion, it can be said that there was a significant correlation between students’ mastery in vocabulary and their ability in comprehending an ESP text.

Keywords :      Vocabulary Mastery, Comprehending, an English for Specific Purpose text.