That is the introduction of this research. In this chapter, several points have been discussed consisting of the background of the problems, identification of the
problems, limitation of the problems, research questions, objectives of the research, and uses. Then the next chapter deals with the theoretical background of
this research.
II. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
The theoretical background for the research is provided in this chapter. The discussion will be divided into two sections, that is, review of previous research
and review of related literature.
2.1 Review of Previous Research
There have been several correlated studies dealing with reading interest, vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. First, the correlation between reading
interest and students‟ ability to find the main idea in a short text a study of second - year students at SMAN 4 Malang, conducted by Fitriani 2008. This paper is
conducted to find out the level of reading interest and significant correlation between the students reading interest and their ability to find main idea in a short
text. The population of this study is the second year students of SMAN 4 Malang, which covers 40 students. The instrument that is used by the writer is
questionnaire. It is used to measure the students reading interest. Besides, using questionnaire, the writer also used a test of reading. The finding of this research
shows that there is significant correlation between reading interest and students‟
ability to find the main idea in a short text. The second previous study is dealing with the correlation between English
vocabulary mastery and writing ability of grade students of SMP IT Rahmatan
Lil „Alamin Seloaji Babadan Ponorogo”, conducted by Fitri 2009. She was student of English Education Department, Faculty of Education, State Islamic
College of Ponorogo. The paper is aimed to find the correlation between English vocabulary mastery and writing ability of grade students of SMP IT Rahmatan
Lil „Alamin Seloaji Babadan Ponorogo. It was also to find out the correlation between English vocabulary mastery and writing ability. The population is 84 of
Eighth Grade Students of SMP IT Rahmatan Lil „Alamin Seloaji Babadan Ponorogo. The instruments of collecting the data are test and documentation. The
test consists of subjective test and objective test. In this research, the writer found that there was a positive correlation between English vocabulary mastery and
writing ability of grade students of SMP IT Rahmatan Lil „Alamin Seloaji
Babadan Ponorogo. The third previous study is the correlation between reading interest and the
achievement in reading comprehension of the ninth grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Tambakboyo, conducted by Shoim 2011. He was a student of English
Department Faculty of Language and Arts Education Universitas PGRI Ronggolawe Tuban 2011. In this paper, he analyzed that there was a significant
correlation between reading interest and the achievement in reading comprehension. He found
some aspects that caused the students had difficulty in comprehending the text which he found in his research were
: students‟ lack of vocabulary and grammar, stude
nts‟ interest in the reading text, teachers‟ ability in guiding and managing their class and inappropriate reading strategy. But,
the writer did not find about the correlation between students‟ reading interest and students‟
vocabulary mastery on their reading ability. The writer uses two kinds of
