VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES AND VOCABULARY SIZE OF THE INDONESIAN SENIOR HIGH STUDENTS

Kharis Munandar, Ari Nurweni, Mahpul Mahpul

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti hubungan antara strategi belajar kosa kata siswa dengan penguasaan kosa kata bahasa Inggris. Subyek penelitian ini sebanyak 120 siswa pada tahun ke dua di MAN 1 Bandar Lampung. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah kuesioner dan vocabulary size test. Desain penelitian adalah ex post facto design. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa nilai korelasi antara kedua variable adalah 0.67 dan nilai pengaruhnya adalah 0.45. Lebih jauh, ditemukan data bahwa sosial strategi mempunyai hubungan yang positif dengan siswa yang mendapat skor antara 60-100 pada tes kosa kata, sementara itu determinasi strategi adalah strategi yang digunakan oleh sebagian besar siswa yang mendapat skor kosa kata antara 40-59. Berdasarkan pada hasil, dapat disimpulkan bahwa ada hubungan antara strategi belajar kosa kata siswa dan penguasaan kosa kata bahasa Inggris.

The objective of this research was to investigate the correlation between students' vocabulary learning strategies and their vocabulary size. The subjects were 120 second year students of MAN 1 Bandar Lampung. The data collecting techniques were questionnaire and vocabulary size test. The design was ex post facto design. The result showed that the correlation value between the two variables was 0.67 and the value of X toward Y was 0.45. Furthermore, it was found that the social strategy had positive correlation with the students who got 60-100 range scores on vocabulary size test, while the determination strategy was the strategy used by the majority of students who got 40-59 range scores on vocabulary size test. Based on the result, it could be concluded that there was a significant correlation between students' vocabulary learning strategies and their vocabulary size.

Keywords: correlation, vocabulary learning strategies, vocabulary size.

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