Abstract
This study is an ex-post facto research which aims to find out the influence of the mastery of function words on reading ability of the seventh grade students of secondary school and to find out how the reading ability between students with adequate function words’ mastery and students with inadequate function words’ mastery is. The samples used in this research were two groups of students who have adequate and inadequate function words’ mastery. Each group consists of 30 students that is chosen by using stratified random sampling. In analysing the data, researcher used Independent Sample t-Test. The result shows that the mastery of function words significantly influences students’ reading ability. It is found that there is significant difference of students’ reading ability between students with adequate mastery in function words with those having inadequate mastery in function words. It is found that students with adequate function words’ mastery have better and higher ability in reading than students having inadequate function words’ mastery.
Highlights
“Words in language is traditionally divided into two major groups on the basis of their grammatical behavior and main functions: content words and function words” (Biber et al, 1999)
This study is an ex-post facto research which aims to find out the influence of the mastery of function words on reading ability of the seventh grade students of secondary school and to find out how the reading ability between students with adequate function words’ mastery and students with inadequate function words’ mastery is
In English grammar, function words have roles to merge each content word. If it is compared with content words, function words can be classified as vocabulary (Fries, 1974)
Summary
“Words in language is traditionally divided into two major groups on the basis of their grammatical behavior and main functions: content words and function words” (Biber et al, 1999). In English, function words can be classified as grammar and vocabulary. In English grammar, function words have roles to merge each content word. If it is compared with content words, function words can be classified as vocabulary (Fries, 1974). From the books which students used, it is found that not all of them have materials discuss about grammar and vocabulary, in this case function words. Some students made errors and mistakes in using function words These errors happened due to the different meanings which are created from the combination of function and content words. The understanding of vocabulary and grammar may effect students’ ability in reading. “grammatical knowledge is important to the comprehension of texts” (Givón, 1995)
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