110 THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENT’S HABIT IN WATCHING ENGLISH MOVIE AND VOCABULARY MASTERY AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SMAN 1 ANGGERAJA Dahniar Masyhud Zainuddin Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar badruddindahniar01@yahoo.com masyhudz@yahoo.co.id ABSTRACT: The objective of this research was to find out whether there is a correlation between students’ habit in watching English movie and vocabulary mastery at the second year of SMAN 1 Anggeraja in the academic year 2015/2016. This study is a correlation research. The instruments used were questionnaire and vocabulary test. The result of the analysis showed that there was significant correlation between students’ habit and vocabulary mastery in watching English movie to 0.766 at the significant level of 0.05 with the critical value of r table 0.339. The correlation between students’ habit in watching English movie and vocabulary mastery was significant since the coefficient correlation is higher than the critical value of r table (0.766 > 0.339). It means that there is a significant correlation between students’ habit in watching English Movie and Vocabulary Mastery at the Second Year of SMAN 1 Anggeraja. KEYWORDS: habit, English movie, vocabulary A. INTRODUCTION ocabulary is the total number of words, which makes up the language. It can be defined as the word we teach in the foreign language. Studying language can be started by learning vocabulary first. It is the most important element of language. Vocabulary is the central of language and it is important to the language students. Without mastering the vocabulary, students cannot communicate effectively and express their ideas in both oral and written form in order to discovering the meaning of what others say. Most of students have problem in mastering vocabulary, including students in SMAN 1 Anggeraja. They face many problems in learning English. The lack of students’ vocabulary mastery may come from both the students as the students; their laziness in memorizing a number of words required, the lack of interest and motivation in learning English, or even the students’ health condition, and the teacher as the instructor to solve this problem. Of course, in this case, the creativity of a teacher in choosing a technique is needed. In other words, a teacher should have more attention to techniques in improving the students’ vocabulary mastery. Furthermore, the hypothesis of this research was “there is a significant correlation between students’ habit in watching English movie and vocabulary mastery at the second year of SMAM 1 Anggeraja”. To solve the problem stated previously, the researcher utilized V