SEKO, DEBORAH TIRTANIA CHRISNA PAKE (2018) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VERBAL APTITUDE AND INFERENTIAL SKILL IN READING : A STUDY AT GRADE 10TH OF SMAN 3 MATARAM ACADEMIC YEAR 2017/2018. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.
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Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the correlation between students’ verbal aptitude and inferential skill in reading as well as to analyze whether there is a possibility for low verbal aptitude students to achieve high score in inferential skill test and identify the factors that influence students’ inferential skill in reading. Mixed method with sequential explanatory design was used in this study. The population of this study is all tenth grade students of SMAN 3 Mataram and 71 students from X MIPA PC and X MIPA 1 were chosen as the sample by using purposive and random sampling technique. The data were gathered from documentation, test and interview. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was conducted to analyze the data with help SPSS 16.0 to ensure the manual calculation. Based on the data analysis, it was found that the rXY is 0.651 and rtable at significant level of 5% is 0.234 which means that rXY ≥ rtable with significant correlation 7.21 which is higher than ttable (1.99495), so that there is strong significant correlation between students’ verbal aptitude and inferential skill in reading. Furthermore, there were 8 students or 11% with low verbal aptitude students but they achieved high score in inferential skill which means there is a possibility for them to achieve high score in inferential skill, yet it was not as high as high verbal aptitude students. According to the result of interview, there are some factors that influence students’ inferential skill such as age, motivation and interest, background knowledge, topics’ interest, working memory, language skills, personality, learning styles, and extended English course.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Keywords (Kata Kunci): | Verbal Aptitude, Inferential Skill in Reading |
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan |
| Depositing User: | Wiwin Kartikawati |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2018 01:48 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Oct 2018 01:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/8799 |
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