THE CORRELATION BETWEEN READING HABITS AND STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AT ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITAS MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA

*21 This research aims to identify the students’ reading habit, to reveal
students’ vocabulary mastery and to find out the correlation between reading habit
and vocabulary mastery. This research was conducted in English Education
Department Department (EED of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
(UMY). The population of EED UMY batch 2013 was 194, moreover the
researcher used convenience sample. 106 students of EED UMY batch 2013
participated in this research. This research used quantitative approach and
correlation as the methodology. Moreover, this research used two instruments
namely questionnaire and vocabulary test. The research found out that the EED
UMY students’ batch 2013 had good reading habit. It was supported by the
students reading habits mean value of 3.09. The research also found out that the
vocabulary mastery of EED UMY was in good category since the mean value of
vocabulary was 3.54. The last result showed that the correlation between EED
UMY students’ reading habit and vocabulary mastery is in very weak criteria of
correlation. It means that the correlation was positive but not significant with the
correlation value was 0.106 and the probability value wasm0.278