ability of the first year students at SMA Negeri 1 Kibang, East Lampung. Based on information of students‟ inferring word meaning from context test result, it
c ould be concluded that students‟ ability inferring word meaning affects their
achievement on reading comprehension. The result is shown when the researcher counted the coefficient correlation for those variables. It was found that the
coefficient correlation was 0.819 categorized as significant correlation.
It also proved when the researcher found the contribution value that showed the students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context contributes 67 to their
achievement on reading comprehension. As Adams and Huggins 1985 in Nation and Coady 1987: 101 claim that word recognition abilities are the single best
class of discriminators between good and poor reader, understanding words meaning becomes the important component of reading comprehension. It means
that these symbols are cues to the readers in which they are identified and interpreted to understand the message.
It can be concluded that the students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context plays important role in students‟
process of understanding the text in term of question that they formulates about the text.
V. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
A. Conclusion
The purpose of the research is to find out the correlation between students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context and their achievement on reading
comprehension. Based on the previous chapter, the researcher comes to the following conclusions:
1. The average score of students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context
is 64.27, where it is in good performance category. It means that the students were able to make use the closeness of the contextual information in which
the word occurred to get a rough idea of its meaning. The average score of students‟ achievement on reading comprehension is 70.08. It means that the
students have good performance in reading comprehension. The students have good ability to comprehend the texts because of the students‟ sufficient
knowledge of word meaning and their ability in drawing inferences or implying the information on the text.
2. The statistical analysis of students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from
context and their achievement on reading comprehension showed that the
value of coefficient correlation r = 0.819 and there is significant correlation between students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context and their
achievement on reading comprehension which was showed by the result of r- value 0.819 r-table 0.312. Based on the result, it can be concluded that
the null hypothesis H is rejected and the research hypothesis H
1
is accepted
. It means that there is significant correlation between students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context and their achievement on
reading comprehension of first year students at SMA Negeri 1 Kibang, East Lampung.
3. For the contribution value, it was found the coefficient influences value is 0.670
. It means that students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context contributes 67
to students‟ achievement on reading comprehension of first year students at SMA Negeri 1 Kibang, East Lampung.
B. Suggestions
1. For teachers, based on the researcher‟s finding on the contribution of ability
in inferring word meaning from context to reading comprehension achievement
, they are suggested to increase the students‟ reading comprehension achievement by improv
ing their students‟ ability in inferring word meaning.
2. For future research, they can use this research as literature to guide them when they want to do the similar research. Although this study has been done
but it still has many weaknesses. Therefore, any researchers interested in the same field are suggested to do deep analysis and focus on ability in inferring
word meaning from context and reading comprehension in order to give a big contribution in academic life.
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