A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AND VOCABULARY MASTERY ON BUSINESS ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY.

Dr. Abdul Asib, M.Pd
NIP 19520307 198003 1 005
Sebagai Staf Pengajar pada Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Lahir di Nganjuk, 7 Maret 1952

FKIP
2

Riwayat Pendidikan:
S-1. IKIP Negeri Malang. 1979.
Bidang Ilmu: Bahasa Inggris
S-2. IKIP Negeri Malang. 1987.
Bidang Ilmu: Pendidikan Bahasa
S-3. UNJ Jakarta. 2009.
Bidang Ilmu: Pendidikan Bahasa

Judul Disertasi:
A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AND VOCABULARY
MASTERY ON BUSINESS ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY
The objective of this research is to reveal the
influence of business knowledge and vacabulary

mastery on the students’ reading comprehension
ability of business English.
The research was held at the University
of Sebelas Maret Surakarta (UNS) and at the
Universitas of Muhammadiyah Surakarta (UMS).
This was an ex-post facto research with a simple
factorial design 2x2 as the research design. The
population were all of the fifth semester students
of the English Departement of UNS and UMS.
The number of the sample was 60 students taken
by using a simple random sampling technique
The results of the research show that: (1)
there is a significant difference in business English
reading comprehension ability between the group
of students having high vocabulary mastery and
those having low vacabulary mastery, (2) there is a
significant difference in business English reading
comprehension ability between the students
having high vocabulary mastery and those having
low vocabulary mastery at the student group of

high business knowledge, (3) there is no difference
in business English reading comprehension ability
between the students having high vocabulary
mastery and those having low vocabulary mastery
at the student group of low business knowledge,
(4) Furthermore, it is known that there is an
interaction effect between business knowledge and
vocabulary mastery on reading comprehension
ability of business English.
Based on the result of the research, it is
concluded that reading comprehension ability of
business English can be increased through the
improvement of business knowledge and
vocabulary mastery.

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk
mengetahui pengaruh pengetahuan bisnis dan
penguasaan kosakata terhadap kemampuan
pemahaman bacaan Bahasa Inggris Bisnis.
Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Jurusan

Bahasa Inggris Universitas Sebelas Maret dan
Universitas
Muhammadiyah
Surakarta.
Penelitian ini berupa penelitian ex-post facto
dengan desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah
desain faktorial sederhana 2x2. Populasi
penelitian adalah mahasiswa semester 5 Jurusan
Bahasa Inggris UNS dan UMS, dan sampel
sebanyak 60 orang diambil secara acak.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa:
(1) terdapat perbedaan kemampuan pemahaman
bacaan bahasa Inggris bisnis yang sangat
signifikan antara mahasiswa yang memiliki
penguasaan kosakata tinggi dan penguasaan
kosakata rendah, (2) terdapat perbedaan
kemampuan pemahaman bacaan bahasa Inggris
bisnis yang sangat signifikan antara mahasiswa
yang memiliki penguasaan kosakata tinggi dan
pengusaan kosakata rendah pada kelompok

mahasiswa yang memiliki pengetahuan bisnis
tinggi, (3) terdapat perbedaan kemampuan
pemahaman bacaan bahasa Inggris bisnis yang
tidak signifikan antara mahasiswa yang memiliki
penguasaan kosakata tinggi dan penguasaan
kosakata rendah pada kelompok mahasiswa yang
memiliki pengetahuan bisnis rendah.(4) lebih
jauh dapat diketahui bahwa terdapat interaksi
yang signifikan antara pengetahuan bisnis dan
penguasaan kosakata dalam memahami bacaan
bahasa Inggris bisnis.
Dengan demikian berdasarkan hasil
penelitian ini dapat disimpulkan bahwa
kemampuan pemahaman bacaan bahasa Inggris
bisnis dapat ditingkatkan melalui pengetahuan
bisnis dan penguasaan kosakata.

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