The Contribution of Students’ Vocabulary and Learning Strategies toward their Reading Comprehension.

The Vocabulary mastery of SMP 1 students is lower than 500 words. In fact, to read the sentence, phrase or paragraph with understanding the students should have mastery at least 1000 of words. The purpose of the research is to prove the contribution of Vocabulary mastery and Learning strategies toward their Reading comprehension in junior high school number 1 of Padang. The population of the research is 336 students of the second year of junior high school number 1 of Padang. The sample of the population is 84 students. The data collecting techniques used simple random sampling. The research result proved three hypotheses. First: vocabulary mastery contribute 9, 6% to reading comprehension, second: learning strategies contribute 9,0%. To reading comprehension, third: Vocabulary and learning strategies together and partially contribute 16, 4% to reading comprehension. Based on the finding above, it can be concluded that Vocabulary mastery and Learning strategies can increase Reading comprehension.