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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
A. Research Findings 1. Description of the Data
The research was conducted at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta in which the fourth semester students of Department of English
Education were involved as the participants of the research. There were two different tests conducted in this study; collocation knowledge test and reading
comprehension test. The tests were conducted in order to get data of students’ collocation knowledge and their reading comprehension. The data was described
as follows:
a. Collocation Knowledge Score
These are the score of collocation knowledge gotten from the collocation knowledge test conducted by the researcher.
Table 4.1 The Collocation Knowledge Score of 4
th
Semester Students of Department of English Education
Participants Collocation Knowledge Score X
Student 1 60
Student 2 70
Student 3 55
Student 4 80
Student 5 55
Student 6 65
Student 7 65
Student 8 70
Student 9 70
Student 10 45
Student 11 55
Student 12 60
Student 13 65
Participants Collocation Knowledge Score X
Student 14 75
Student 15 60
Student 16 80
Student 17 80
Student 18 85
Student 19 65
Student 20 85
Student 21 50
Student 22 60
Student 23 65
Student 24 75
Student 25 60
Student 26 55
Student 27 90
Student 28 70
Student 29 85
Student 30 50
Student 31 70
Student 32 65
Student 33 50
Student 34 75
Student 35 60
Student 36 80
Student 37 65
Student 38 60
Student 39 95
Student 40 65
Student 41 50
Student 42 70
Student 43 50
Student 44 80
Student 45 70
Student 46 55
To provide an additional vivid description of the data distribution of collocation knowledge, the histogram of frequency distribution is presented in
figure 4.1 as follows:
Figure 4.1 The Histogram of Data of Collocation Knowledge
From the figure 4.1 above, the total number of students is 46 students. The student who got score 45 is 1 student, students who got score 50 are 5 students,
score 55 are 5 students, score 60 are 7 students, score 65 are 8 students, score 70 are 7 students, score 75 are 3 students, score 80 are 5 students, score 85 are 3
students, student who got score 90 is 1 student, and score 95 is 1 student. Apparently, from the symmetrical bell-shaped curve, it shows that the data of
collocation knowledge is normally distributed. Furthermore, the statistical score of collocation knowledge were counted
using Frequencies of Descriptive Statistics in SPSS statistic program version 22.0
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