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2.6 The Related Studies.
There are many studies that relate to this research: The Correlation between students’ Interest in Reading Scientific Essays, Scientific Vocabulary
Mastery and Their Achievement in Reading Comprehension. 1. Al-Nujaidi, A.H. 2003. The relationship between vocabulary size, reading
strategies, and reading comprehension of EFL learners in Saudi Arabia. Unpublished dissertation. UMI AAT 3094023.
2. Garland, Phil. 2006-2007. A Three Year Continuous School Improvement and Achievement Plan. Webster High School, Tuisa Public Schools.
3. Oneida J.2002-2003 Success in reading comprehension and vocabulary mastery with interest in reading. Unpublished papers. Oneida Middle School.
The three writers above claims that high interest in a subject tended to be associated with high ability in that subject, and low interest with low ability. The
reason for failure in reading is some lack of interest in reading but it does not mean that only interest causes failure in reading. They also have similar opinion
that even though interest may be doubted to have contribution to one’s ability to do something, the existing interest may be used as an indicator of one’s
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achievement and as a specific form of internal motivation as well as the affective factor of achievement in reading comprehension.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
The research method used in this study is quantitative in which the data or findings are counted quantitatively and in order to get the empirical data, field
research was conducted. It is called field research or field study because it was carried out at school or university to achieve educational objectives.
Suharsimi,1988 To collect the data the writer used a questionnaire of interest, vocabulary
mastery test and reading comprehension test. The subject of the research were the fourth year students of English Department of UMK Universitas Muria Kudus.
It was under an assumption that there is a correlation between interest in reading scientific essays and scientific vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension
achievement of the students. To determine whether there is a significant correlation between students’
interest in reading scientific essays, scientific vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension achievement the writer used SPSS program that computes the
descriptive data of the students’ tests.
3.1 Population
Nunan 1992:231 defines population as all cases, situations or individuals who share one or more characteristics. The population of the research was the
fourth year students of English Department of UMK in the academic year 20052006. The total number of the population was 160 students consisting of
four classes. The members of female students were more than those of male students. That was why each class had more female than male students. Each class
had almost the same members of students. 4 A had 38 students consisting of 28 girls and 10 boys. 4B had 42 students consisting of 30girls and 12 boys. 4C had
36 students consisting of 25 girls and 11 boys. 4D had 44 students consisting of 32 girls and 12 boys.
The following table shows the distribution of the population.
