THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES
(A Descriptive Study on the Fourth Semester Students of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in Academic Year
2013/2014).
A THESIS
Submitted to the English Department as a Partial Fulfillment of
the
Requirement for S.Pd Degree
By:
Adinda Assma Fardani
1001050037
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOKERTO
APPROVAL
TITLE : THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES.
( A Descriptive Study on The Fourth Semester Students of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in Academic Year 2013/2014)
NAME : ADINDA ASSMA FARDANI NIM : 1001050037
FACULTY : TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
DEPARTMENT : ENGLISH DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR : LISTIANI, M.Pd
APPROVED BY:
SUPERVISOR
LISTIANI, M.Pd
SKRIPSI BERJUDUL
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR VOCABULARY
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Dipersiapkan dan disusun oleh: ADINDA ASSMA FARDANI
1001050037
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Nama : Adinda Assma Fardani
NIM : 1001050037
Program Studi : Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Fakultas : Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Menyusun skripsi dengan judul :
“THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES ( A Descriptive Study on the Fourth Semester Students of English
Department Students of Muhammadiyah Universty of Purwokerto in Academic Year 2013/2014 )”
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Purwokerto, 11 Agustus 2014
Yang menyatakan
MOTTO
You are never too young to dream big
If you feel like giving up,just look back on how far you are
already
DEDICATION
From the deepest of my heart, I would like to dedicate my thesis to:
My beloved mother, Muslichah Rowi
Thank you for your endless love, prayer and support. I am grateful for having a mother who teaches me what the real life is and how it works. Stay healthy, Mah. I LOVE YOU.
My beloved father, Murtadho Syahuri
Thank you so much for a lot of love that you had given to me. I miss
you, Bapak. You may live in peace in afterlife. I’m proud to be born
as your little daughter. I LOVE YOU.
My beloved brother and sisters (Mbak Dian Agustian, Mba Eli Damayanti, Mbak Isti Astuti, Mbak Melani Anisah, Mas Indra Nova Hamdani, and Mbak Farah Zahrani) Thank you for your affection, prayer, patience and support physically and materially.
I LOVE YOU All
My nephews and nieces, (Rama, Sinta, Lesmana, Aji, Uli, Ilham, Yanu, Hafidz, Kiki, Kalila, and Kenes) AUNTY LOVES YOU ALL.
Triyan Akbar Ma’rij. My full-time partner and part-time lover. Thanks
a bunch for being patience, for being my best listener ever, for your support, and prayer.
Fransiska Stefani. Thank you for being my best buddy. People come and go, njoek, but the best will stay.
My best friends (Ririn Puji, Achsanty, Nurjanah, Dewi Indah, Niken Pratiwi, Praharsacitta, Wahyu Mega, Lana Desi, Arum Hestiningsih)
never forget the days we’ve passed with laugh and fun, guys. Friendship isn’t a big thing. Its a million little things.
My second family in Griya Musafir Kost (Mba Anita, Mba Ririn,
moments and laugh, thanks for your joke, support, smile and spirit.
I’ll miss you guys.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
To The Almighty, Allah SWT, all this thankfulness is presented. This thesis is a partial fulfilment of the requirements of S.Pd degree in English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, University of MuhammadiyahPurwokerto, is finally done because of His mercies and blessing which came alive through; Listiani, M.Pd, my supervisor who guide me patiently during the research and gave great advices on my writing.all the fourth semester students of English department of university muhammadiyah of purwokerto, Drs. Pudiyono, M.Hum, the Head of English Department, for letting me investigate what I wanted to know through the research, and Drs. Ahmad, the Dean of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, who had given me permission to conduct the research. Therefore, I am also grateful to the aforementioned helpers and let me remark my compliment by this thesis.
practitioners at schools and education regulators at respective roles to maintain the good quality of education.
Purwokerto, 11th August 2014
LIST OF CONTENTS
COVER……… i
APPROVAL……… ii
LEGALIZATION………... iii
STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP……… iv
MOTTO………... v
DEDICATION………... vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT……….. vii
LIST OF CONTENTS……….. viii
LIST OF APPENDICIES……… ix
ABSTRACT……… x
LIST OF TABLE………..………….. vi
ABSTRACT………..………. vii
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of Research……… 1
B. Reason for Choosing the Topic……….. 4
D. The Aims of The Research………. 5
E. The Clarrification of the Terms……….. 6
F. The Limitation of The Study……….. 7
CHAPTER II THEORITICAL REVIEW A. Nature of Vocabulary 1. Definition of Vocabulary……….. 8
2. Steps of Learning Vocabulary……….. 9
3. Assessing Vocabulary………... 11
4. How to Learn Vocabulary……… 12
5. The Mastery of Vocabulary……….. 13
6. Problem of Vocabulary Mastery……….. 14
B. Vocabulary Learning Strategies 1. Definition of VLS………. 14
2. Taxonomies of VLS………. 15
3. The Previous Study……….. 17
4. Hyphothesis………. 18
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY A. Method of Research……….. 20
B. Schedule and Time of the Research……….. 21
C. Population……….. 22
D. Sample……… 22
F. Data Collection Technique……… 24
1. Vocabulary Mastery Test………. 24
2. Questionnaire……… 26
G. Technique for Analyzing Data………... 27
1. Students’ Vocabulary Test………... 27
2. The percentage and categorization of VLS…….. 28
3. Statistical Product and Service Solution (SPSS).. 29
4. Product moment correlation………. 30
CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION A. The result of the research……….. 33
1. Students’ individual score of voc. Mastery…… 33
2. Students individual percentage of VLS………. 34
3. The percentage of students’ VLS……….. 36
4. Hypothesis testing ………... 40
B. Discussion……….. 44
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS A. Conclusion……… 50
B. Suggestion………. 51 REFFERENCES
LIST OF APPENDICES
1. Vocabulary learning strategies questionnaire……… 56 2. Vocabulary learning strategies questionnaire in English…… 60 3. Vocabulary mastery test……… 52 4. Key answers……….. 57 5. The result of VLS questionnaire……….. 58 6. The individual score of vocabulary mastery and VLS
questionnaire……… 60
7. The computation result of individual score of vocabulary mastery and VLS Questionnaire……… 62
8. The computation of product moment
correlation………. 63
ABSTRACT
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR VOCABULARY
LEARNING STRATEGIES
( A Descriptive Study on the Fourth Semester Students of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in Academic Year
2013/2014) students’ vocabulary mastery and each vocabulary learning strategies used by students, and knowing whether or not there was a correlation between students’ vocabulary competence and their vocabulary learning strategies. This research was descriptive study. The population of the research was the fourth semester students of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto in Academic Year 2013/2014 and the number of population was 137 students. In this research the population was taken 25 % or 35 respondents. The technique of sampling used random sampling and in order to get the sample, lottery method was used. In this research, test and questionnaire to collect the data were used. After the data had been analyzed, S4 got the highest score 68 and its estimated vocabulary size was 5800 and S26 got the lowest score 29 and its estimated vocabulary size was 2100. The most dominant used by students was determination strategy with the percentage 59.42 % that belonged to fair category and least strategy was social strategy 44.68 % that belonged to fair category. It was found that there were only two strategies showed significant influence towards students’ vocabulary mastery. They were memory strategy and cognitive strategy. It could be seen from the coefficient variable memory strategy was 2.373 while t-table was 2.030. The significant value was 0.025. It was less than 0.05. The coefficient variable cognitive strategy was 2.672 while t-table was 2.030. The significant value was 0.12. It was less than 0,05. It was found that there was a correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their vocabulary learning strategies. It can be seen from the result of computation was 0.733 that belonged to enough and the r-table was 0.344 in the level of significant 1% for N = 35 subjects. In conclusion, there was a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their vocabulary learning strategies.
