ARIEN KARTIKA, “A CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN THE STUDENTS’ HABIT OF READING ENGLISH TEXTS, VOCABULARY MASTERY, AND READING SKILL IN THE SECOND GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL”. A thesis. Consultant: Drs. Martono, M. A. Second Consultant: Dr. Sri Haryati S.Pd., M.Pd. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. Sebelas Maret University. Surakarta 2023.

The study is aimed to find out the correlation between (1) reading habit of English texts; (2) vocabulary mastery; and (3) reading skill of the eleven grade students at one of senior high school in Sragen, both partially and simultaneously. The method used in this study is correlation study. This study used test and questionnaire to collect the data. There are two kinds of test: objective test and oral test. The techniques used to analyze the data are single and multiple correlation and also regression by using Microsoft Excel 2016. The results of the study showed that in the level of significance a = 0.05 (1) there is a positive correlation between students’ reading habit of English texts and reading skill (rx1y = 0.5754); (2) there is a positive correlation between vocabulary mastery and reading skill (rx2y = 0.6574); and (3) there is a positive correlation between students’ reading habit of English texts and vocabulary mastery simultaneously and reading skill (Rx1x2y = 0.726). The positive correlation indicates that students’ reading habit of English texts and vocabulary mastery have contributions on student’s reading skill.