THE CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR MASTERY AND THEIR READING ABILITY AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 12 PURWOREJO IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The objectives of the study are to find out the students’ grammar mastery and students’ ability in reading and also to find out whether or not there is a correlation between the students’ grammar mastery and their reading ability of eighth grade in State junior high School 12 Purworejo. This research is survey research and the population of this research is at the eighth students of SMP N 12 Purworejo, and the researcher takes two classes as sample that consist 64 students. The researcher uses a test as instrument. The test consists 50 questions. There are 25 for grammar and there are 25 for reading. The result of this research shows that the mean score of students’ grammar mastery is 37.68. It means that the students’ on mastery grammar is very bad category. Then, the mean score of students’ reading ability is 53.75. It means that the students’ on reading ability is in bad category. So, this research shows that there is no significant correlation between the students’ grammar mastery and their reading. This result is obtained from the computation of the correlation between the students’ grammar mastery and their reading applied to the sample is -0.119. The critical value of the Pearson r with the 5 % significant level is 0.317. It means that the result obtained from the computation is lower than its critical value. Therefore, I conclude that the correlation between the two variables above is not significant.

Keyword: correlation, grammar, reading and survey research