Analyzing the Relationship between Metacognitive Strategies and Vocabulary Mastery at a Highschool Level

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The objective of this research is to find out whether there is a correlation between students’ metacognitive strategies and their vocabulary mastery. This research used quantitative approach with correlation as the research method. The population of the research was 104 students of all three classes of tenth grade of Accounting major in SMKN 7 Bekasi. In collecting the data, the researcher used two research instruments, a questionnaire was used to collect students’ metacognitive strategies data, and a test was used to collect students’ vocabulary mastery data. The result of the research showed that there is a significant correlation between students’ metacognitive strategies (variable X) and students’ vocabulary mastery (variable Y). This statement can be proven by the result of r_xy which is higher than r_table (0,6273 > 0,2287), and the comparison between t_count and t_table which calculation resulted in t_count > t_table (9,0002 > 1,9935) with the regression line Y ̂ = 10,1609 + 0,9200. The coefficient determination result, which is r_xy² = 0,3935 x 100 = 39,3%, shows that the data obtained from this research represents 39,3% of the real situation while the other 60,7% are represented by other aspects that is not the part of this research. According to the description of data above, it can be concluded that there is a significant positive correlation between students’ metacognitive strategies and students’ vocabulary mastery.