Data Presentation The Correlation between Academic Words Mastery and the Students’ English Productive Skills
the students’ vocabulary test scores and final practice examination scores see in appendix 4. The correlation between the twelfth grade students’ mastery of
academic words and their productive skills is found by using SPSS program as in the table as follows.
Table 4.18 The correlation between academic words mastery and productive skills
VAR000 01
VAR000 02
Correlation Coefficient
1.000 .027
Sig. 2-tailed .
.770 VAR000
01 N
120 120
Correlation Coefficient
.027 1.000
Sig. 2-tailed .770
. Spearmans
rho
VAR000 02
N 120
120
Variable 1 represents the academic word test scores and variable 2 represents the final practice examination scores. Final practice examination
consists of speaking and writing tests which are included in productive skills. Table 4.18 shows that the correlation between those two variables is 0.027. It
means that the correlation can be ignored or almost there is no relation between academic word mastery and productive skills in which mastery in this research is
about knowing the academic word meanings, especially knowing the Indonesian equivalences.
The correlation between those two variables is very low in this finding since the students’ scores in academic word test sometimes do not always
correlate with their productive skills scores in the final practice examination. Table in appendix 4 shows that the students’ who have high scores in academic
word test do not always have high scores in the writing and speaking test, even the students who have low scores in vocabulary test are able to achieve high scores in
writing and speaking skills. In the previous discussion, the twelfth grade students’ mastery of academic
words and its correlation with the students’ productive skills were discussed. It is known that the twelfth grade students’ mastery of academic words in SMA Negeri
1 Wonosari is above the minimal standard, i.e. 583 words. It means that the
students’ mastery of academic words is good because they are able to know the academic words and the meanings well, especially understanding the Indonesian
equivalences. The correlation is counted by using SPSS program based on the source of
data, i.e. the students’ vocabulary test scores and the students’ practice examination scores. The correlation between those two variables is counted by
using Spearman’s correlation in SPSS program and the result shows that the correlation is very low or there is almost no relation between those variables, i.e.
0.027.