Linguists: Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching
Vol 5, No 1 (2019)

Improving Vocabulary Mastery and Reading Comprehension of Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 18 Bengkulu through Morphological Awareness Instruction

Ediah Yusti Mulyansari (Universitas Hazairin Bengkulu)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Jul 2019

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out whether or not Morphological Awareness Instruction could improve students’ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension. This study also aimed to find out the students’ perception concerning the use of Morphological Awareness Instruction. A true experimental research method was applied to achieve the goal. The sample of this study was sixty students of SMPN 18 Kota Bengkulu which were chosen by using two stages of random sampling. To collect the data,a set of questionnaire and tests were used. Independent sample t-test was applied in analyzing the data. The results showed that (1) Morphological Awareness Instruction significantly improved students’ vocabulary mastery; (2) Morphological Awareness Instruction significantly improved students’ reading comprehension, and (3) there were positive perceptions of the students toward the use of Morphological Awareness Instruction in learning vocabulary and reading. Key words: Morphological Awareness Instruction, vocabulary mastery, reading comprehension.   

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Journal Info

Abbrev

linguists

Publisher

Subject

Religion Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching contains the research manuscripts related to the broad areas of Linguistics and English Language Teaching. The journal is published twice a year (July and October) by Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Bengkulu and is based at the Department of Tadris ...