correctly, 20 students answered 4 questions correctly, 7.5 students answered 5 questions correctly, and 12,5 students answered all questions correctly. It can be
concluded that almost the students have average performance in answering questions asking Reference.
The last, from the result of Vocabulary, it was it was found that from 6 questions 5 students answered 2 questions correctly, 17.5 students answered 3 questions
correctly, 30 students answered 4 questions correctly, 20 students answered 5 questions correctly, and 27 students answered all questions correctly. It can be
concluded that almost the students have good performance in answering questions asking meaning, synonym, and antonym of the words.
3. The Correlation between
Students’ Ability in Inferring Word Meaning from Context and Their Achievement on Reading
Comprehension
Each student performed differently in both inferring word meaning from context test and reading comprehension test. In order to know the coefficient correlation
between students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context and their achievement on reading comprehension of the first year students at SMA Negeri 1
Kibang, East Lampung, the researcher analyzed the data by using Statistical Package for Social Science SPSS version 18. The following table will show the
computation result of the two variables:
Table 8. The Value of Pearson Product Moment Correlation
From the calculation above, the researcher found that the coefficient correlation between students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context and their
achievement on reading comprehension was 0.819 at significant level of 0.01. Manual calculation also shows the same result that the value of correlation is
0.819, for detail see Appendix 17 . It means that correlation between students‟
ability in inferring word meaning from context and their reading comprehension achievement is significant.
Furthermore, the researcher found that the coefficient correlation between students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context and their achievement on
reading comprehension skills such as Main Idea was 0.678, Detail was 0.657, Inference was 0.560, Reference was 0.592, and Vocabulary was 0.677 see
Appendix 20-24. It m eans that the correlation between students‟ ability in
inferring word meaning from context and their reading comprehension skills is significant.
Correlations
1.000 .819
.819 1.000
. .000
.000 .
40 40
40 40
reading Y inferring X
reading Y inferring X
reading Y inferring X
Pearson Correlation Sig. 1-tailed
N reading Y
inferring X
4. The Contribution of Students’ Ability in Inferring Word Meaning from
Context to Their achievement on Reading Comprehension
After knowing the coefficient correlation between students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context and their achievement on reading comprehension,
then Simple Regression analysis was used to see how far the contribution of students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context to their achievement on
reading comprehension.
The following table will show the computation of simple regression analysis of the two variables:
Table 9. The Value of Regression
The table showed that the coefficient influences value of X toward Y was 0.670,
which classified into significant influence. It means that the contribution of students‟ ability in inferring word meaning from context to their reading
comprehension achievement was 67, while other 33 was influenced by other factors.
Furthermore, the researcher found the coefficient influences value of X toward Y1 was 0.459, Y2 was 0.432, Y3 was 0.314, Y4 was 0.351, and Y5 was 0.458 see
Model Summary
.819
a
.670 .662
2.845 Model
1 R
R Square Adjusted
R Square Std. Error of
the Estimate Predictors: Constant, inferring X
a.
Appendix 20-24 . It means that the contribution of students‟ ability in inferring
word meaning from context to their reading comprehension achievement in such skills as Main idea was 45.9, Detail was 43,2, Inference was 31,4,
References 35.1, and Vocabulary was 45.8, while other percentages were influenced by other factors.
5. Hypothesis Testing
The hypothesis testing is the last step in this research to prove whether the hypothesis proposed by the wrier was accepted or not.
The result calculation for the first hypothesis showed that the coefficient correlation was 0.819, which was classified into significant correlation. The
critical value of r-table was found 0.312. The coefficient correlation is higher than the critical value of r-table 0.8190.312. Therefore, for the first hypothesis, 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.
B. Discussion
From the result of inferring word meaning from context test, it was obtained that the highest score was 90 and the lowest score was 33.3 and the average was 64.27
