Abstract:
The final project is about the correlation study between students’ grammar
mastery and their reading ability at eighth grade students in junior high school 12
Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. 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 the
eighth grade students in junior high school 12 Purworejo in the academic year
2012/2013. The sampling process was administered by applying a purposive
sampling technique. There were 192 students of the eighth grade and I took 64
students as the sample. I administered two kinds of tests, namely Grammar Test
and Reading Test. Both of the tests were in written form. In Grammar and
Reading Test, I used Multiple Choice test. The instrument used for measuring the
achievement was a test.
The result of this research showed 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.
In line with the result of the research, I suggest that to improve the
students’ reading ability, the students should improve their grammar mastery,
because the grammar mastery can support their reading ability. It is essential to
the teacher to know that one of the factors affect the students reading ability is the
students’ mastery on grammar.
