| dc.description.abstract | One of the difficulties commonly encountered by students in
comprehending reading text is lack of vocabulary mastery. Therefore, the
researcher in this study decides to organize research that focuses on the effect of
vocabulary knowledge toward students reading comprehension ability. The
purpose of this study was to investigate whether the students who experience the
vocabulary knowledge treatment achieve better than those who do not experience
it.
The research design of this study was quantitative quasi- experimental
study. While, the population of the study was the seven grade students of MTs
Miftahul Ulum. From that population, the samples were 43 students of MTs
Miftahul Ulum. The instruments of the research were pretest and posttest
questions focusing on descriptive text. The questions of the test were made by the
researcher. To get valid test, the texts of the test were measured by using
readability checker and the test checked deeply by the expert. The scores of the
test were collected and analyzed using IBM SPSS version 24. Wilcoxon test and
Mann Whitney test were used to analyze the data. The result of the study shows
that students’ score of experimental group is significanly higher than students’
score of control group. Therefore, it can be concluded that vocabulary knowledge
is a suitable treatment in helping students to improve their reading
comprehension.
As the suggestion for future researchers, they should add more material for
the test, measure the reliability of the test, and conduct vocabulary knowledge
treatment toward listening and writing skill. While for the teachers, the English
teacher should adopt vocabulary knowledge treatment as their teaching strategies
to help them improve their students reading comprehension. | en_US |
