The Relationship Between Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Reading Comprehension Based on Gender

Abstract

This research aimed to determine The Relationship between Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Reading Comprehension based on the Gender. This is a quantitative research using the correlation method. Data were collected from online questionnaires and test. This research uses bivariate correlation analysis as a research design. Respondents in this research were 8^th grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Kebomas of the 2020/2021 academic year in Gresik, East Java, Indonesia. This study found that students’ Vocabulary Learning Strategies had a positive and significant correlation to students’ Reading Comprehension with the results indicate that the significance value in male students’ is 0.828 > 0.265 (rtable value) and the results indicate that the significant value in female students’ is 0.751> 0.265 (rtable value) at the level of significance 0.05.