1.3 Research Questions
The research problem can be stated as follows: a.
To what extent do the tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Batang in
academic year 20102011 master vocabularies?
b. To what extent do the tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Batang in
academic year 20102011 comprehend reading texts?
c. Is there any significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and their
reading comprehension?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of this study can be stated as follows: a.
To figure out the vocabulary mastery of the tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Batang in academic year 20102011.
b. To figure out the reading comprehension of the tenth grade students of SMK
Negeri 1 Batang in academic year 20102011. c.
To figure out whether or not there is a significant correlation between students
b. For students, they can take some information to identify their problems in
vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. Furthermore, they can also increase their ability in vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension
.
c. For readers, they are expected by reading the final project the reader will have
no find any difficulties in understanding the vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension.
d. For the writer, by doing the research, the writer hopes that he can study and
get more information to identify the problem in vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension.
1.6 Definition of Key Terms
With reference to the title of this thesis, there are terms that need to be defined in order to avoid various interpretations as follows:
1. Correlation
Correlation means relationship, and study is similar to research correlation. The relationship between two variables in this research, the vocabulary
mastery and reading comprehension. 2.
Vocabulary mastery is student
4. Tenth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Batang, it consists of 270 students,
divided in 9 vocational classes, with the age average of each students is 16 years old.
1.7 Outline of the Report
The study is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is introduction about the study which introduces the study. It will discuss the background of the
study, reasons for choosing the topic, research questions, objectives of the study, significance of the study, definitions of the key terms and outline of the report.
The second chapter presents a review of the related literature. The review of literature that contains some theories about this study. There are: vocabulary as
one of the language components, mastery of vocabulary, reading as one of the language skills, benefits of vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension.
The third chapter is about methodology of the research. It discussed of the research design, variable, source of data, choice of population and sample,
instrument, procedure of collecting data item analysis and method of analysis. The fourth chapter explains the result of the students
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter presents some theories underlying the topic of this study. Those theories relate to the vocabulary as one of the language components, the mastery
of vocabulary, reading as one of the language skill and the benefits of vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension.
2.1 Vocabulary as One of the Language Components
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