The correlation between students' frequency of watching English movie and students vocabulary knowledge

Abstract

This research was aimed to know : “There was significant correlation between students’ frequency of watching English movie and students’ vocabulary knowledge at SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung in 2020/2021 academic year. The researcher methodology of this research was a quantitative. The population of the research was the twelve grade students of SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung in 2020/2021 academic year, the number of students was 35 students. The researcher gave a questionnaire to know students’ frequency of watching English movie, and test to know the students’ vocabulary knowledeg. The data that has been gathered was analysed by Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Data Analysis shows that there is significant correlation between two variable since p<0.05 (p=0.345). It can be happened because most of students use their time to watching English movie and it can enrich their vocabulary.

Keywords: Frequency of Watching English Movie, Vocabulary Mastery