THE CORRELATION OF VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR MASTERY TOWA RDS STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY AT FIFTH SEMETSER OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF IAIN KERINCI 2020/2021

Reading is one of the language skill that must be mastered generally by everybody who wants to master English language and especially the students in using english language correctly. the people will not be able to comprehend or interpret the message from reading text without knowing english reading properly. but it is not enough without mastering the vocabulary and grammar mastery, because to know the real meaning of the text , to comprehend the text, the students must master both of them, more precisely, vocabulary and grammar mastery are the main things in reading comprehension because it has connection each other, the students will not get the deeply information from the text without pay attention to the structural of the words such as, what is tense that author use in the sentence, and how the sentence connect to the other sentence in building a paragraph. In addition As at English Department program.it is absolutely trigged reading as one of the courses that must be taken by the students. getting the information from the text easily, It is not enough without mastering vocabulary and grammar mastery. there were 2 research questions that must be overcomed. Firstly,Is there any contribution between vocabulary towards reading comprehension ?. Secondly, Is there any contribution grammar mastery towards reading comprehension? And thirdly, How the contribution of vocabulary and grammar mastery towards the students reading comprehension ability at fifth semester of the englsih department of iain kerinci? The researcher used SPSS 22 in calculating all of the data The result of the research showed us that firstly, based on statistical analysis shown us that there was significant correlation between students‘ vocabulary mastery and reading comprehension was significant (p< .05; p= .000) and the coefficient value was 0,720 was interpreted strong. Secondly, there was significant correlation between students‘ grammar mastery and reading comprehension was significant (p< .05; p= .000) and the coefficient value was 0,762 was interpreted strong. And thirdly, The value of Sig F change was 0,000 ( < 0,05) so, it can be concluded that the vocabulary mastery variable (X 1), Grammar Mastery (X 2), had simultaneously significant correlation. towards reading comprehension (Y).The value of R ( cooefficient correlation) was 1000 The coefficient correlation is higher than critical value of r table (1000. > 0.000). was interpreted very strong it meant that there was significant contribution between vocabulary mastery and grammar mastery towards reading comprehension.