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significant relationship between morpheme identification and morphological structure”. From the table there is p-value 0.023
0.05. That is H is
rejected and Ha is accepted. Thus the hypothesis “There is significant relationship between vocabulary size and morpheme identification” is rejected. By looking at
the table r = 0.279 show us that the degree of the correlation is low. In addition, the correlation of the variable is positive meaning that the increase of the
morpheme identification is in line with the increase of the morphological structure. A study by Tabatabei 2011 found that the ability to break down the
words structure influenced the ability to construct new words. The learners developed receptive and productive skill of words formation if they had complete
thought of the words formation. To sum up, by looking at the data interpretation, it can be concluded that there is a positive correlation between morpheme
identification and morphological structure. Feldman 1995 suggested that the learning of morpheme should be done in whole mode. The students should
develop the awareness to recognize the elements of the words and synthesize the words elements to ensure that they could use the words in macro skills.
B. Discussion
The questions addressed by this current study are whether correlations exist between vocabulary size and morpheme identification; vocabulary size and
morphological structure; and morpheme identification and morphological structure. It was expected that the number of vocabulary size will positively
correlate with morpheme identification and morphological structure. In addition, this current study also assumed that there is a positive correlation between
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morpheme identification and morphological structure. Generally, this current study reveals that there is a significant correlation between vocabulary size and
morpheme identification. In addition, there is also a significant correlation between vocabulary size and morphological structure. This current study also
finds that there is a significant correlation between morpheme identification and morphological structure. However the level of correlation varies. The results
reflect that the level of the correlation of the variables were not high. The level of the correlation between vocabulary size and morpheme identification was low. A
bit different with the first result, the correlation between vocabulary size and morphological structure is in the moderate level. Yet the correlation between
morpheme identification and morphological structure was again similar to the first result, that was in the low level.
1. The Correlation between Vocabulary Size and Morpheme Identification Awareness
The assumption is based on the understanding that higher vocabulary size will influence the ability to breakdown the elements of the word. The result
showed that the p-value is 0.03. Ho is rejected as p-value 0.03
0,05 meaning that there is a significant correlation between vocabulary size and
morpheme identification. The correlation is positive meaning that the increase of the vocabulary size is in line with the increase of the morpheme identification.
However, by looking at the table r = 0.267 show us that the degree of the correlation is low.
