THE CORRELATION BETWEEN VOCABULARY MASTERY AND READING COMPREHENSION COMPETENCE OF EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS OF MTS NEGERI 1 BANJARNEGARA

The aims of this research were to know students’ vocabulary mastery, to describe students’ reading comprehension, and to find out the correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension competence of the eight grade students of MTs Negeri 1 Banjarnegara. This research was quantitative with correlational research design. The instrument of this research was test of vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. The population of this research was 255 students. The simple random sampling was used in taking the samples of 32 students from all eight grades. Furthermore, the researcher used Pearson Product Moment formula through SPSS 24 to analyzed the data. The mean score of vocabulary mastery was 51.875 categorized as nearly average level, and the mean score of reading comprehension was 58.437 categorized as average level. The result of Pearson product moment showed that the Rxy was (0.865). With degree of significance 5%, the score of Rtable was (0.349). Then, the Rxy > Rtable (0.865 > 0.349) which means there was a significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. According to the interval (0.800-1.00), the correlation was categorized very strong