Investigating the Relationship between Vocabulary Mastery and Students’ Reading Comprehension in Vocational High School
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21460/saga.2026.71.255Keywords:
correlation, English, vocabulary, vocationalAbstract
This study aims to determine the correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension and, if present, the strength of that correlation at SMK Negeri 1 Kalasan. This study is a correlational research study involving 120 eleventh-grade students at SMK Negeri 1 Kalasan. This study used vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension tests adapted from Nation’s (2013) and Beglar’s (2007) vocabulary test items. The collected data were then analyzed using Spearman’s rho in SPSS 27. The findings of this study showed a significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and students’ reading comprehension (r = 0.638, p < 0.001). The correlation was significant at a moderate level, indicating a meaningful but not strong relationship between the two variables. This suggests that students with better vocabulary mastery tend to have better reading comprehension.
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