<![CDATA[Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan apakah ada hubungan antara motivasi, penguasaan kosakata, dan pemahaman membaca siswa. Desain penelitian ini kuantitatif menggunakan ex post facto designs. Peneliti menggunakan sampel penelitian sebanyak 28 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah kuesioner motivasi, tes kosa kata, dan tes pemahaman membaca. Data yang terkumpul dianalisis menggunakan Pearson Product Moment Correlation di SPSS 17.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai r dari motivasi and pemahaman membaca, penguasaan kosa kata dan pemahaman membaca adalah .862 dan .844. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa ada hubungan yang berarti antara motivasi, penguasaan kosa kata dan pemahaman membaca siswa. Semakin tinggi motivasi dan penguasaan kosa kata, maka semakin tinggi pemahaman membaca siswa.The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is a significant correlation between students motivation and vocabulary mastery toward their reading comprehension or not. It is quantitative research that applied ex post facto designs. The researcher employed 28 students of SMPN 31 Bandar Lampung as sample. The instrument of this research was in the form of motivation questionnaire, vocabulary test and reading comprehension test. The collected data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation in SPSS 17.0. The result showed that r of students motivation and reading comprehension, and students vocabulary mastery and students reading comprehension were .862 and .844 respectively. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a positive correlation between students motivation and vocabulary mastery toward their reading comprehension. The higher the students motivation and vocabulary mastery are, the higher the students reading comprehension achievement is.Keyword: motivation, reading comprehension, vocabulary mastery]]>
