The Correlation Between Students' Achievement in Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension of the Eleventh Grade Students

The objective of research was to find out the correlation between students' achievement in vocabulary and reading comprehension of the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Tolitoli. The population was the eleventh grade students. The number of the sample was 31 students. In collecting data, the researcher used two instruments namely questionnaires and tests which were consisted of vocabulary test and reading comprehension test. Questionnaire was used by researcher to know the correlation between the variables. The vocabulary test was used by researcher to collect the data about the students' achievement in vocabulary, while reading comprehension test was used to gather data about reading comprehension. The result of both tests showed rxy was 0.41. The result of data analysis showed t-counted (0.41) was greater than t-value (0.367) by applying 5% level of significance and df was 29. In conclusion, there was a correlation between vocabulary and reading comprehension