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INTRODUCTION
Reading is one of the four language skills in language learning. It is the ability to
draw meaning from the printed page and interpret this information appropriately (Grabe and
constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language (Snow in
Mailis etc,2014:2).
Nowadays, the ability to comprehend English text is necessary for millions of people.
By understanding English, people are able to communicate in English and also able to read
many kinds of English texts as Harris (1980:39) said that “the ability to read is crucial in
contemporary society. People find many texts written in English, from holiday brochures to
Therefore, the ability to read English text in any form will give a lot of many plenties of
Every sound, stress pattern, and intonation may convey meaning. The non-native speakers of English
who speak English have to be very careful in pronouncing some utterances or they may create
misunderstanding.
Pronunciation skill is an English skill which has a correlation between other skills.
Someone reading means producing sound by saying the words those are read and someone
will listen to the reader which is the speaker. If the speaker makes a mistake in pronouncing
sounds, this study is called phonetics (Crane, 1981: 57). The better a speaker pronounce
words, the better he can explain what he means to native speakers. On the other hand, it will
be hard for native speakers to understand non-native speakers if their pronunciation is not
clear. The writer, of course, cannot improve his pronunciation unless he becomes interested
in phonology itself.
Another factor that affects learner‟s pronunciation is the teacher‟s teaching methods.
According to Clark (1983:184), teaching methods are the means by which the teacher
attempts to bring about the desired learning. The method in teaching concerns the way
teachers organize and use the technique of teaching subject matter, teaching tools, teaching
material, and teaching procedures that will best achieve these objectives, carrying out the
procedures, evaluating the success of the learning activities and following up their success
and failure. Techniques, according to Gerlach (1975:197) are the ways and means adopted
by a teacher to direct the learner's activities toward an objective. Techniques are the tools of
the teacher. Techniques are the means for teaching, and objective can be part of the
Based on the explanation above, the writer is interested to conduct research about:
Based on the background above, the writer would like to identify the problem as
follows:
How is the student profile of is reading comprehension for the Eleventh year students’
How is the profile of students’ pronunciation skill for the Eleventh year students’ of
Is there any correlation between pronunciation mastery and reading comprehension for
the Eleventh year students’ of SMK N 2 Salatiga in the academic year of 2018/2019?
Based on the statement on the problem above, the objective of the study are:
To find the profile of students’ levels of students’ reading comprehension for the eleventh
To find the profile of students’ the levels of students’ pronunciation skills for the Eleventh
To find out if there is any correlation between the students’ pronunciation mastery and
reading comprehension eleventh year students SMK N 2 Salatiga in the academic year of
2018/2019?
In this case, the writer focus on the correlation between students’ pronunciation
mastery and reading comprehension. The writer chooses this topic to find out the writer
choose this topic to find out further information and to know how deep the students’
pronunciation mastery for the Eleventh year students’ of SMK N 2 Salatiga in the academic
language. The result of the research also may give benefits for the teacher, students, readers
By doing the research the writer expected more information to identify the problem in
The result of this study will provide a reference and reflection for students so that their
pronunciation master as well as reading comprehensions, improve then the students can
English teacher can use this result as feedback on teaching pronunciation mastery and
reading, can be as guidance when their students facing some problems in mastering both
of them.
The result of this research can be a consider and additional information for other
researchers who will conduct any further studies in the same field.
This research is some key term should be defined. They are correlation study, the student
pronunciation mastery, and the student reading comprehension. The description of these
term as below:
The student’s mastery in pronunciation
Mastery
1974:153)
Pronunciation
Reading Comprehension
Theoretical Background
There is some related research which has been conducting previously by other
researchers:
Pronunciation Mastery And Their Speaking Ability”. This research is aimed to find
some difficulties in learning English. One of the difficulties that the students find in
Lampung. It was also found out reveal the correlation between students’ pronunciation
mastery and their speaking ability. The results of the research showed that pronunciation
And Their Writing Ability in Descriptive Text” was conducted by Yuyun Azizah in 2018.
The objective of this research is to find out whether there is a correlation between
vocabulary mastery and their descriptive writing ability. The instruments to collect the
data were vocabulary mastery test and descriptive writing test. The findings of this
mastery and their writing ability in the descriptive text for the seventh grade students of
analyzed the ability of reading comprehension and their components, especially the
mastery of the vocabulary of the on the 11th grade students of SMA Islamiyah
Pontianak in the academic year of 2016/2017. The results of the research show that
Type of Research
Correlation means a relationship between two variables. The whole purpose of using
understanding to the readers that, at least, two things or more are linked by a cause.
dependent variable. Based on the direction of the relationship it can be divided into a
variations in factors related to variations in one or more other factors based on the
variation.
Data Collection
and KGSP of SMK N 2 Salatiga. Because this research belongs to the correlational
study, the researcher applies the measurement technique. The data will be collected
Population
Arikunto (1997:108) stated that population is all participant of the research
subject. Population is all individual that are collected by the data. This, populations
Data analysis
SMK N 2 Salatiga in the academic year of 2019/2020, the writer use instrument:
Test
which owned by individuals or grup. In the research, the writer use reading
comprehension and pronunciation mastery test in order to get the data about
Documentation
object from many resources like book, note, magazine and many more. In this
reserch, the writer use the documentation about the picture of student who
became the object of this research and general condition class of XI BKP A
SMK 2 Salatiga.
In analyzing the data collect by using both instrument, the writer analyzed
the data using descriptive statistic. There are several steps to analyze the data. First,
writer calculated the average using descriptive statistics in order to find out ability
pronunciation student. Second step, the writer calculated the score of students‟
reading comprehension and averaged the score . The last step, the writer find out the
correlation of both variables. To know the correlation the writer calculated the data
As the guidance for either researcher in writing the graduating paper or reader on the
whole content of the graduating paper, the researcher who also the writer needs to set up
graduating paper outlines. There are five chapters in this graduating paper. Chapter I is an
introduction that discusses the background of the study, statement of the problem, objective
of the study, limitation of the problem, benefits of the study, definitions of the key terms,
Review of Previous Researches and graduating paper organization. Chapter II describes the
review of literature, this discusses the theory that will be used in this study, taken from some
book that describes the vocabulary, writing and descriptive text. Chapter III is a research
method. This chapter will explain how the researcher will be analyzed. It consists of the
setting of the research, research design, population and sample, instrument of the data
collection, procedure of the data collection, technique of the data collection, and technique
This chapter the writer would like to explain the description of data presentation and
discussion. Chapter V is closure. It presents conclusion and suggestion. The last part is