Correlation between students’ motivation and students’ vocabulary mastery

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out whether or not there was a positive correlation between vocabulary mastery and students’ motivation. It was quantitative research. The researcher employed 30 students of SMPN 22 Bandar Lampung as the sample. The instruments of this research were motivation questionnaire and vocabulary test. The collected data were analysed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation in SPSS 24.0. The result showed that there is correlation between students’ motivation and students’ vocabulary mastery, with the score of the r table .640 this referring to medium correlation.