The Correlation between Students Vocabulary Mastery and Their Reading Comprehension

This study was carried out to explore the significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension in descriptive text. In doing so, this research employs quantitative approach with correlational design to measure the level of students' vocabulary mastery and their reading comprehension skills. To get the accurate result, the researcher implemented SPSS Statistic Version-26 program. This study also used the random sampling, with two instruments. First, the vocabulary test, second, the reading comprehension test that contained multiple-choice questions with four options. To get the data, quantitative analysis is used. The final result of the analysis shows that there was a positive correlation between the students‟ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension ability. It was reasonable since the average of the student’s vocabulary mastery was 73, In the table of vocabulary mastery rate score vocabulary the students classified as very good. Meanwhile, the student reading comprehension score was 54, In the table of the students reading comprehension rate score the students classified as very poor score.The main result of this research indicates that the correlation test of vocabulary mastery with initial reading ability, the r count was 0.814 and the r table value was 0.361, which means that r count > r table (0.697 > 0.226) with a significance value of 0.05. In conclusion, there is a significant relationship between vocabulary mastery and the reading ability.