Sitta Murti, 2201412036 (2017) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF DEDUCING MEANING FROM CONTEXT AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Murti, Sitta. 2016. The Correlation between Students’ Mastery of Deducing Meaning from Context and Their Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text.(A Correlation Study of the Third Grade Students of SMP N 2 Jaken in the Academic Year 2015/2016). Final Project, English Department. Faculty of Languages and Arts, Semarang State University. First Advisor: Dr. Issy Yuliasri, M.Pd., Second Advisor: Intan Permata Hapsari, S.Pd., M.Pd. Key words : correlation, deducing meaning from context, narrative text, reading comprehension. This final project is about the correlation between students‘ mastery of deducing meaning from context and their reading comprehension of narrative text of the third grade students of SMP N 2 Jaken in the academic year 2015/2016. The objectives of this study are to find out the students‘ mastery of deducing meaning from context of the third grade students of SMP N 2 Jaken in the academic year 2015/2016, to find out the students‘ reading comprehension of narrative text of the third grade students of SMP N 2 Jaken in the academic year 2015/2016,and to find out whether or not there is a significant correlation between students‘ mastery of deducing meaning from context and their reading comprehension of narrative text of the third grade students of SMP N 2 Jaken in the academic year 2015/2016. The subject of this study was the third grade students of SMP N 2 Jaken in the academic year 2015/2016. The sampling technique used was the purposive sampling technique. Therefore, IX D class was chosen. In order to achieve the objectives, I used a correlation quantitative approach to collect the data because the data were stated in numeral form, and the data were then analyzed and computed by using Pearson‘s Product Moment Formula. I used test as the instrument to get and collect the quantitative data in the form of the test score. There were two kinds of tests; the first was the test of deducing meaning from context, and the second one was the test of reading comprehension of narrative text. The data analysis showed that both students‘ mastery of deducing meaning from context and reading comprehension of narrative text are still poor. It was proved from the average of deducing meaning from context was 53.3, and reading comprehension of narrative text was 56.7. The result of the data analysis also showed that the correlation coefficient between the two variables was 0.85, while the critical value for 5 % significance level was 0.433. Thus, it can be concluded that there is a very significant correlation between the students‘ mastery of deducing meaning from context and their reading comprehension of narrative text. The teacher should consider emphasizing in teaching the students to deduce meaning from context.Deducing meaning from context technique can hopefully be apllied to other text types (e.g., procedure, recount, descriptive).To get a good achievement in reading comprehension, the students also have to master vocabulary through deducing meaning from context.

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