%A Syofian Hadi 0413042049
%T CORRELATIVE STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS? ABILITY IN
INFERRING WORD MEANING FROM CONTEXT AND THEIR 
ACHIEVEMENT ON READING COMPREHENSION OF FIRST YEAR
STUDENTS AT SMA N 1 KIBANG EAST LAMPUNG 
%X The present research is aimed at investigating the correlation between students?
ability in inferring word meaning from context and their reading comprehension
achievement. Forty first year students from SMA N 1 Kibang East Lampung were
selected using a sample random sampling by using lottery. The data gained by
administering a set of inferring word meaning from context test and reading
comprehension test. 

From inferring word meaning from context test, it was obtained that the highest
score was 90, the lowest 33.33 and average was 64.27. It means that the students
have good performance in inferring word meaning from context. While for
reading comprehension test, it showed the average of students? achievement on
reading comprehension was 70.08. The highest score was 93.3 and the lowest
score was 46.7. It means that the students have excellent performance in reading
comprehension.

The result showed that the coefficient correlation was 0.819 and it was significant
where r-value (0.819) > r-table (0.312) and it was found that students? ability in
inferring word meaning from context influenced their  reading comprehension
achievement with 67%; that is, students? ability in inferring word meaning had a
positive correlation with their achievement on reading comprehension.

%D 2012
%I Universitas Lampung
%L eprints11643