It indicates that by improving participants’ vocabulary knowledge in particular vocabulary depth, reading comprehension would also be
improved.” This research uses the different aspect from what is used in the above research, but both of the study give evidences that vocabulary
knowledge and reading comprehension are significantly related. Furthermore, Hirsch 2003:16 states that reading comprehension
can be achieved by a person with at least knowing 90 to 95 percent of the words in a text. It is quite clear that vocabulary influences the success of
reading comprehension with the significance of relationship is almost perfect.
In line with Hirsch, Antonacci and O’Callaghan 2011:10 say that vocabulary and reading comprehension have a strong relationship that
can be proven by the teachers’ experiences during teaching them in which the good result of vocabulary test will influence to the good result
of reading comprehension test as well. In this case, the students’ word knowledge is the key to comprehend the text.
3. Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy VSS a. The Nature of VSS
The Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy VSS was developed by Ruddell in 2005. It was implemented in the classroom consisting students
from the seventh grade, high school and graduate school students. Ruddell 2005:166 promotes that VSS is a strategy for teaching that can
be implemented as the pre-reading or post-reading activity in which the
students can choose the words based on their interest and then they can define the words based on the context of the text. The activity lets the
students to nominate the word that they want to learn more and it is important to learn. In the practice, the students can be divided into some
groups consist of two to five and the teacher can gives three to five minutes to the students to find and define the words based on their
rationale before presenting them to the class. The focus of the activity is to define the words in the specific context based on the content of the
text. Antonacci O’Callaghan 2011:26 state that VSS has the
purposes to promote the students’ word awareness and to motivate them to learn new words so that it will support their academic success. They
also say that the main purposes of implementing this strategy is to make the students understand with the new words, promote their interest to the
new words and provide a strategy to learn the new words. In line with Ruddell, Antonacci O Callaghan agree that the VSS is better
implemented in the small groups so that the students can work together. In line with Antonacci O’Callaghan, Martin 2002:88 says that:
“The Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy VSS is an interactive-learning instructional
strategy that promotes word consciousness, as students are actively engaged in identifying
important words from their reading to share with members of their class.”
From the literature explained above, we can conclude that Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy is an effective strategy to teach
