The Influence of English Language Mastery Against the Results of Student's Answers on Problems of Mathematics PISA

Abstract

This research aims to know the influence of the mastery vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension against students' answers of problems PISA mathematics, either directly or indirectly. This research used path analysis as a research design. 100 respondents of the research were the students of state yunior high school South Jakarta. Data collection was done through the research instrument in the form of questions about vocabulary, grammar and reading comprehension, while the mathematical problems uses PISA of year 2012. Before performing data analysis performed multiple statistical tests which is a requirement in the analysis line i.e.:Normality Test; Its Homogeneity Test; as well as a test of the significance of the regression coefficients and linearity. The results of the analysis found that there were: direct influence of vocabulary knowledge mastery against the students' answers on the results of mathematical problems' of PISA; the direct influence of the mastery of grammar against students ' answers on the results of mathematical problems' of PISA; direct influence of vocabulary knowledge mastery against reading comprehension; the direct influence of the mastery of grammar students ' answers on reading comprehension; direct influence reading comprehension towards the students ' answers on the results of mathematical problems ' of PISA;  indirect influences mastery vocabulary knowledge against the students ' answers on the results of mathematical problems ' of PISA through reading comprehension; and the indirect influence of grammatical against students ' answers on the results of mathematical problems ' PISA through reading comprehension.

Key words: vocabulary mastery knowledge, grammar, reading comprehension, the result of solving math problems, and PISA.