Abstract
The aim of this research is to find out whether there was a positive relationship between students’ interest in reading and their mastery of English vocabulary for fifth grade elementary school students at the lab school in Jakarta. This research used a quantitative method applying a co-relational approach. The population for this research was fifth grade elementary school students from three lab schools. A simple random sampling was used to select a sample of 60 students as respondents from these schools: Lab school Rawamangun in East Jakarta, Lab school Setia Budi in South Jakarta and Lab school Kebayoran also in South Jakarta. Data was collected using a questionnaire with 30 questions requiring answers on a Likert scale and 32 test items were given to each respondent. The conclusion from this research is that there was a positive and significant relationship between interest in reading and mastery of English vocabulary amongst the sample fifth grade elementary school students from these lab schools in Jakarta. Hence, students who had high interest in reading, their mastery of English vocabulary also increased.
Highlights
English is the most commonly used language in the world
It can be concluded that Fcalculated = 49.07> 4.01 = Ftable which means that the regression model was significant or meaningful. This means that there was a positive relationship between interest in reading and mastery of English vocabulary amongst students
H0 was rejected since t = 7.011 [rejection of H0 as tcount = 7.011> 1.67 = ttable] which means that there was a positive relationship between interest in reading and mastery of English vocabulary amongst the sample of fifth grade students from three lab school primary schools
Summary
English is the most commonly used language in the world. being able to speak English is to have one of the most important capabilities that can be held by people if they want to compete in this era of globalization. Mastering the English language means learning all the components of it. These start from sentence structure, vocabulary, idioms, speaking ability, collocations, pronunciation and writing well. Competency standards for primary school students which are to be able to communicate and discourse in English at an elementary level will be more difficult to achieve with the more limited number of hours made available for lessons. This will most likely mean reducing the ability of students to learn this, the most important international language.
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