STUDENTS’ LEXICAL MASTERY OF COLLOCATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT (A Correlation Study in English Department at Fifth Semester of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu

Rani, Enyla Rama (2023) STUDENTS’ LEXICAL MASTERY OF COLLOCATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT (A Correlation Study in English Department at Fifth Semester of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Fatmawati Sukarno.

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Abstract

In reading there will always be an element of collocation. It means reading comprehension will be good if the mastery of collocation is good. The objective of this research are (1) to investigate the students’ lexical mastery of collocation (2) to investigate the students’ reading comprehension achievement (3) to investigate significant correlation between students’ lexical mastery of collocation and their reading comprehension achievement in English Department at Fifth Semester of UIN Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu. Correlational study was applied as a method. There were 30 students taken as the sample of this research. The data were collected by using lexical collocation and reading comprehension achievement test. In analyzing the data, this research used Pearson Product Moment Correlation and SPSS 25. The result showed that (1) the score of lexical collocation test was 83.3 % with category is poor (2) the score of reading comprehension test was 66.7% with category is very poor. Finally, it can be conclude that the correlation between students’ lexical mastery of collocation and their reading comprehension is fair. It means alternative (H1) was accepted while null (H0) was rejected. Moreover, since low lexical collocation mastery can affect low reading comprehension achievement, it is hoped that the knowledge and ability of students on lexical collocation can be improved better by the teacher.

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