The correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and listening ability
Abstract
This research described the correlation between vocabulary mastery and listening ability of the eleventh-grade students at Integrated Islamic Senior High School Qardhan Hasana Banjarbaru. The problems that should be answered in this research were: (1) how is the students‟ vocabulary mastery? (2) How is the students‟ ability in listening ability? 3) Is there any significant correlation between students‟ vocabulary mastery and their listening ability? The subject of this research was the eleventh-grade students at Integrated Islamic Senior High School Qardhan Hasana Banjarbaru. There were 75 students in the eleventh grade. The data of this research were collected through written test and documentary. Then all data are analyzed with the quantitative method and by using the inductive method to draw a conclusion. By using product moment formula, the final result shows that rxy is 0.557. For N = 75, r table in 5% fault is 0.227 and 1% fault is 0.296. It appears that rxy is more than r table. It means that the null hypothesis (Ho) was denied and the hypothesis alternative (Ha) is accepted. It can be concluded that there is a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and listening ability. The direction of correlation is positive correlation and sufficient category.
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