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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This research was conducted to find out whether or not there is a significant correlation between: 1 Students’ interest in reading scientific essays
and their achievement in reading comprehension, 2 Scientific vocabulary mastery and students’ achievement in reading comprehension, 3 Students’ interest in
reading scientific essays and scientific vocabulary mastery and their achievement in reading comprehension. The respondents were 60 students of the fourth year
students of English Department of UMK Universitas Muria Kudus. There were three instruments used in this research, namely a questionnaire to measure
students’ interest, scientific vocabulary test, and reading comprehension test. After distributing the questionnaire and carrying out the tests, the next step was
scoring the result of questionnaire and the tests. The data were statistically processed to know the general descriptions of them such as the mean, standard
deviation and mean of score. The next process was testing its normality to determine whether or not the data were normal.
4.1 Data Description
4.1.1 Students’ Interest
As I stated in chapter III, the students’ interest was measured by using a questionnaire with twentyfive items. Then the total score of each respondent was
identified.
From the scoring of the questionnaire, the data are described as follows: Table 14. Data Description of Students’ Interest
Mean 85.0500 25 items
Standard Deviation 12.37469
Maximum Score 123.00
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Minimum Score 63.00
Mean of Score 3.402
The value of mean above was obtained from the number of questions that were written in its side. Therefore, the mean of score can be counted by dividing
the mean with the score of its item or . As a result, the mean for interest is 85.0500 from twenty five questions. Hence the mean of score is 3.402
The range between maximum and minimum score is 60123-63. The average of standard deviation is 12.37469.
4.1.2 Vocabulary
As I stated in chapter III, the vocabulary variable was measured by a test with twenty four items. Then the total score of each respondent was identified.
From the score of vocabulary variable, the data is described as follows: Table 15. Data Description of Vocabulary Test
Mean 56.2167 24 Items
Standard Deviation 8.65945
Maximum 74.00 Minimum 39.00
Mean of Score 2.34
The value of mean above was obtained from the number of questions. Therefore, mean of score can be counted by dividing the mean with score of its
item. As a result, the mean for vocabulary variable is 56.2167 from twenty four questions. The mean of score is 2.34.
Between the maximum and minimum score, there is a range of 3574-39 and the value of the average standard deviation is 8.65945.
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4.1.3 Reading Comprehension
As elaborated in chapter III, reading comprehension variable was measured by a test with thirty one items. Then the total score of each respondent
was identified.
From the scoring of reading comprehension variable, the data is described as follows.
Table 16. Data Description of Reading Comprehension Mean
56.75 31 Items Standard Deviation
9.56446 Maximum 74.00
Minimum 35.00 Mean of Score
1.83
The value of mean above was obtained from the number of questions that were written in its side. Therefore, the mean of score can be counted by dividing
the mean with the score of its item. As a result, the mean for reading comprehension variable is 56.75 from 31questions. The mean of score is 1.83.
The range between maximum and minimum score is 74 - 35= 39. The average standard deviation is 9.56446.
4.2 Data Analysis
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