Test of Normality Findings

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1. Correlation between Vocabulary Size and Morpheme Identification Awareness

The first statistical analysis is about the correlation between vocabulary size and morpheme identification awareness. SPSS version 21 was used to compute the data taken from vocabulary size test and morpheme identification awareness test. The result of the statistical analysis by using Correlation of Pearson Product Moment is presented below. Table 3.1 The Result of Correlation between Vocabulary Size and Morpheme Identification Awareness Correlations Morpheme_I dentification _Test Vocabulary_ Size Morpheme_Identificati on_Test Pearson Correlation 1 .267 Sig. 2-tailed .030 N 66 66 Vocabulary_Size Pearson Correlation .267 1 Sig. 2-tailed .030 N 66 66 . Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level 2-tailed. The first result is to test the first hypothesis H “ There is no significant correlation between vocabulary size and morpheme identification “ and Ha “There is significant relationship between vocabulary size and morpheme identification”. 52 From the table, there is p-value 0.03 0.05. That is H is rejected and Ha is accepted. Thus the hypothesis “There is no significant relationship between vocabulary size and morpheme identification” is rejected. By looking at the table r = 0.267 show us that the degree of the correlation is low. In addition, the correlation of the variable is positive meaning that the increase of the vocabulary size is in line with the increase of the morpheme identification. To sum up, by looking at the data interpretation, it can be concluded that there is a positive correlation between vocabulary size and morpheme identification. It confirms the previous study by Tabatabei in 2011 which studied the vocabulary size and morphological awareness of Saudi Arabia students. The study showed that there was a positive contribution of the vocabulary size to morphological awareness. In addition, it is in line with the study by Wang and Chen in 2006 which resulted that Chinese learners got positive advantage by knowing the structure of the English words.

2. Correlation between Vocabulary Size and Morphological Structure Awareness

The next statistical analysis is about the correlation between vocabulary size and morphological structure awareness. The result of the statistical analysis by using Correlation of Pearson Product Moment is as follows.