Reading Proposal

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THE CORRELATION OF VOCABULARY MASTERY ON STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION IN VII GRADE AT SMPN 2 PRAMBON

By :

NIGKA FATIMATUS SHOLEKAH

NPM : 11.1.01.08.0138

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

UNIVERSITY NUSANTARA PGRI KEDIRI

2013

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the problem

Language is the tool or way to communicated with others. Communication is the method how we can express our feeling and our meaning with using some sign. To expressed or to exchange texts, which the text based on the situation and based on the meaning. As Prof. DR.Kem Soekemi, M.A. in his book “Semantik : A Work Book” states that :

“Language can be regarded as a communication system that relates something to be communicated with something that communicates, a message (signified) on the one hand with a set of sign or symbols on the other. There are other communication system, but all of them are much simpler than language. For instance, traffic light use colours and colours combination to instruct drivers to be ready, to go, or to stop.”

Moreover, Lim Kiat Boey in his book entitled “ An Introduction to Linguistic for the Language Teacher “ (1975:3), states that :

“Language is social phenomenon. It is a means of communication between individuals. It also brings them into relationship with their environtment. Language is therefore socially learned behaviour, a skill that is acquired as we grew up in society.”

In Indonesia, English became a foreign language in the party citizent. But, in much people in a row globalization era, used English in their daily activity. Students from kindergarden up to university learn English, even some of kindergardens required the students to speak English when at the class. Not only that, much of people used English in their daily activity, although some of them did not know the real meaning of that words. In the simplest example is: people said “sorry” if their had mistakes, people said “bye” if they separated with anothers, people used English in their shop names, people used “tailor” to given knew the others that he/she is a tailor, etc. According to that, English is an international language that used by almost all coutries in the world to communicate with the others and now, it is adopted on the subject at schools. Brumfit (1981: 1) states that English is an international language and the most widespread medium of communication, both because of the number and geographical areas of its speakers and the large number of non native speakers who use it for part of their international contact. Thus it is not surprisingly that English role is getting more and more important in our life. In Indonesian schools it was included as foreign language learning in the curriculums, it was began from primary school until at the university. People believe that foreign language will be very useful for develop the countries in globalization era. To support this condition and build English as foreign language to indonesian students, English teacher should be able to use the effective technique, method, and approach in learning procces. In English learning, the students should be able to master four language skill. They are Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. But not only that, to become master in english language they need some other aspect, one of them is vocabulary.

Vocabulary is one of important aspect in mastering foreign language. Poor vocabulary is one of the problem the for learners, it will caused them have a difficulties to understand and difficulties to became master of the basic skills like listening, speaking, reading, and writing as the main skills of English. So that, they must enriching their vocabulary to solve this problem. Learning, as a language based activity, is fundamentally and profoundly dependent on vocabulary knowledge. Learners must have access to the meanings of words that teachers, or their surrogates (e.g., other adults, books, films, etc.), use to guide them into contemplating known concepts in novel ways (i.e. to learn something new). (Baker, Simmons, & Kame'enui, 1998) .

According to H. G. Tarigan, "Kualitas keterampilan berbahasa seseorang jelas tergantung pada kuantitas dan kualitas yang dimilikinya maka semakin besar kosakata yang kita miliki maka semakin besar pula kemungkinan kita terampil berbahasa".

Mastering vocabulary is the ability to get or receive a lot of words. By having and mastering vocabulary we will understand and able to communicate with other person clearly. It also can helps to avoid making mistakes in understanding/decrease any misscommunication.

Some people belive that reading is one of the way to enriching vocabulary. When we are reading, we will find some new word, we can predict the meaning by look based on the context, sometimes our predicting are correct. Reading comprehension is very important thing for learning process at school especially for reader. When they are learning some subject such as Math, Chemist, Physic and English, and they must read the instruction or the material with understandingful in order to they can do the instruction or the questions. That is the little prove that reading is not activity of reading, but you must understand what is you read. So why, some people must to read in several times to sure their comprehension of their reading. Research findings in applied linguistics and reading research consistently show a strong correlation between reading comprehension proficiency and academic success at all ages, from the primary school right through to university level: “students who read a lot and who understand what they read usually attain good grades." Pretorius, E.

Educational researchers have also found a strong correlation between reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge. In other words, students who have a large vocabulary are usually good readers (good comprehension in reading). This is not very surprising, since the best way to acquire a large vocabulary is to read extensively, and if you read extensively you are likely to be or become a good reader. Reading and vocabulary are both important concepts within any written language, and they typically develop together for learners. Reading and vocabulary are connected as a process of learning and expanding on ideas.

Based on the information above, the reasearcher wants giving evidence that, there are correlation between vocabulary mastery on students reading comprehension at VII grade at SMPN 2 PRAMBON.

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