CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS' MOTIVATION AND STUDENTS' VOCABULARY MASTERY AT SMAN 1 PAGELARAN

Kaka Rossyana Pitono, Cucu Sutarsyah, Ujang Suparman

Abstract


Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan apakah ada hubungan atau tidak antara motivasi and penguasaan kosa kata. Ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif. Penelitian ini menggunakan sampel sebanyak 40 siswa di SMAN I Pagelaran. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah questioner motivasi dan tes kosa kata. Data yang terkumpul dianalisis menggunakan Pearson Product Moment Correlationdi SPSS 16.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa nilai r dari motivasi dan penguasaan kosa kata adalah .633 yang termasuk dalam  korelasi sedang. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa ada hubungan yang berarti antara motivasi and penguasaan kosa kata. Semakin tinggi motivasi siswa, maka semakin tinggi penguasaan kosa kata.

The purpose of this study was to find out whether or not there is a significant correlation between students’ motivation and vocabulary mastery. It was a quantitative research. The researcher employed 40 students of SMAN 1 Pagelaran as the sample. The instruments of this research were motivation questionnaire and vocabulary test. The collected data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation in SPSS 16.0. The result showed that r of students’ motivation, and students’ vocabulary mastery was .633 which is included in the medium correlation. Therefore, it can be stated that there is a positive correlation between students’ motivation and vocabulary mastery. The higher the students’ motivation is, the higher their vocabulary mastery becomes.

Keywords: motivation, vocabulary mastery


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