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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 the Fifth-Semester Students of English Education Study Program at University of 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.
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Ahn, S. J. (2009). Knowledge of Collocations and their relation to Reading Proficiency of Korean EFL Learners. Studies in Modern Grammar. Sun Moon University, South Korea : Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis.
Alyousef, H.S. (2005). Teaching reading comprehension to ESL/EFL learners. The Reading Matrix. Volume 5 No 2.
Bahns, J. (1993). Lexical Collocations: A Constrantive view. ELT Journal:. Volume 47, Issue 1. Oxford University Press; NewYork
Cabaroglu, N. & Yudarisik, A. (2008). University Instructors’ Views about and Approaches to Reading Instruction and Reading Strategies. The Reading Matrix. Volume 8, No. 2.
Cahyo, N. (2015). The correlative study between student’s lexical knowledge of collocations toward their reading comprehension. (Undergraduated Thesis) State Institute for Islamic studies Salatiga, Jawa Tengah: Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis.
Cohen,L., Manion,L., & Morrison,K. (2007). Reseacrh Methods in Education (6th ed.).
New York, NY: Routlage.
Fitriani, D. (2017). The Relationship between Collocational knowledge and Reading Comprehension Achievement of Undergraduated EFL Students of English Education Study Program. (Undergraduated Thesis) UIN Raden Fatah Palembang, Palembang: Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis.
Fraenkel, J.R., Wallen, N.E., & Hyun, H.H. (2012). How to evaluate research in education (8th edition). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Ganji, M. (2012). The Effect of Reading Comprehension of lexical Collocation Instruction; Subject Matter Knowledge, and Cultural Schema. Theory and Practice in Language Studies. Volume 2, No 1.
Kwon, J. Y. (2005). A Study of proper English Reading Strategies tailored to the Learners’ Language Ability (based on TOEIC reading comprehension part). (Unpublished masters’ Thesis). Dankook University, Yongin and Cheonan, South Korea.
Mardiana. (2016) .A Descriptive Study on Student’s in Using English Lexical Collocation. (Undergraduated Thesis), Universitas Bengkulu, Bengkulu : Unpublished Undergraduate thesis.
Maskar, P. (2008). The Correlation Between Reading Comprehension and Grammatical Knowledge. Indonesia University of Education, Bandung, Indonesia: Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis
Rahmawati, E.Y. (2016). The Effects of Students’ Lexical Knowledge of Collocation and Grammar Mastery Towards Studenst’ Reading Comprehension. (Undergraduated Thesis), Universitas Indraprasta, Jakarta : Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis
Thornbury, S. (2009). How to Teach Vocabulary. London: Longman
Widjaya, A.K., & Imran, I. (2009). English Verb Lexical Collocation. (Undergraduate Thesis) Gunadarma University, Jakarta: Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis
Wiggins, G., & McTighe,J. (2005) Understanding by Design . Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Publications, USA.
Woolley, G. (2011). Reading Comprehension: Assisting Children with Learning
Difficulties. Netherlands: Springer.
Yalmiadi, J. H. (2016). Students’ Ability in Using Lexical Collocation in Descriptive Writing at English Department of Padang State Polytechnic. Journal of English Language Teaching (ELT). Volume 1. No 1.