THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MASTERY ON LEXICAL COLLOCATION AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION

The aims of this research were to find out the correlation between students’
mastery of lexical collocation and their reading comprehension. This research
applied correlational study which used quantitative design. The subjects were 66
of fifth-semester students of English Education Study Program of Univeristas
Bengkulu in academic year 2018/2019. The data were collected from two
instruments: (1) lexical collocation test was used to get data about students’
mastery of lexical collocation and (2) reading comprehension test was used to get
data about students’ reading comprehension achievement. The result of the two
instruments counted by using Pearson’s Product Moment formula and checked it
by using SPSS 22 Program. The conclusion were (1) The result score of lexical
collocation test showed that 53% of the students got score over 70, it means that
half of the total subject of the students have a good knowledge of collocation
especially in lexical collocation. (2) There was high significant correlation
between students’ mastery of lexical collocation and their reading comprehension.
The result of calculation using Pearson Product moment formula and SPSS 22
Program can be seen in table 4.1 which showed the score of arithmetic r > the
score of r table (0,825 > 0,315). It means that Ha was accepted and H0 was
rejected.
Key words: Lexical Collocation, Reading Comprehension