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ABSTRACT M. Rizki Ramdhan, 2315.063. THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTERNET ACTIVITY FREQUENCY AND THEIR VOCABULARY SIZE AT IAIN BUKITTINGGI. A thesis, State Islamic Institute Bukittinggi, 2020 This research was due to the problem such as there are some students who used internet frequently but their vocabulary was still limited. For example, they seem to use a very simple vocabulary when the researcher asked them to make a conclusion based on the text that the researcher showed to them. In other hand, there were students who have a good amount of vocabulary when they made a conclusion of what they read. Then, there were students who rarely used internet but their vocabulary was good and they can make a conclusion with variety vocabulary. Some of students have limited vocabulary; so that the students did not understand the text. There were many words that they do not know the meaning. The purposes of this research was to find out whether there is any significant correlation between frequency internet activity and vocabulary size, to find out whether there is correlation direction significant between frequency internet activity and vocabulary size, to find out whether there is correlation magnitude between frequency internet activity and vocabulary size. The researcher used the quantitative research. The design of this research was correlational research because it had the purpose to find out correlation between internet literacy and vocabulary size. The population in this research was 108 students that were the total of the students in the fifth semester in IAIN Bukittinggi. Researcher took 30% from each class in population as sample of this research which was 33 students. To collect the data, this study used questioners and test. Based on the finding, the research questions were answered. First, there was significant correlation between internet activities frequency and vocabulary size since sig values is smaller than alpha (0,0000010,05) or r-measured was bigger than r-table (0,730>0,3440). This means that the students’ internet frequency activity correlate with their vocabulary size. Second, there was positive correlation between both variables (+0.730). In other word, the more students have activity in the internet the better their vocabulary size. Third, the magnitude of the correlation was high (between 0.71—0.90). This means the more students use internet the more they are exposed to the English language since the Internet use English in majority, so that the students’ vocabulary size would improve. It can be concluded that Ha is accepted since there was significant correlation between internet activities frequency and vocabulary size.