CORRELATION BETWEEN GRAMMAR MASTERY AND DESCRIPTIVE WRITING ABILITY
Abstract
Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari tahu apakah ada hubungan antara penguasaan tata bahasa siswa terhadap kemampuan menulis deskripsi. Instrumen yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data adalah tes penguasaan tata bahasa dan tes menulis deskripsi. Hasil dari analisis menunjukan bahwa ada korelasi antara penguasaan tata bahasa siswa dan kemampuan menulis deskripsi mereka sebesar 0.868 pada level signifikan dari 0.05 dengan nilai r tabel 0.361 dan nilai p nya 0.000. Hubungan antara penguasaan tata bahasa siswa dan kemampuan mereka dalam menulis deskripsi dikatakan signifikan karena korelasi koefisien lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan nilai r tabel (0.868> 0.61) dengan p (probability) 0.000 yang lebih kecil daripada 0.05. Semakin baik penguasaan tata bahasa seseorang maka semakin baik pula kemampuan menulis nya. Jadi, seseorang yang ingin memperbaiki kemampuan menulisnya harus mempelajari tata bahasa.
The objective of this research is to find out whether there is correlation between the students’ grammar mastery and their descriptive writing ability. The instruments to collect the data were grammar mastery test and descriptive writing test. The result of the analysis shows that there is a correlation of the students’ grammar mastery and their descriptive writing to 0.868 at the significant level of 0.05 with the critical value of r table 0.361 and p was 0.000. The correlation of the students’ grammar mastery and their descriptive writing ability is significant since the coefficient correlation is higher than the critical value of r table (0.868 > 0.361) with p 0.000 which is less than 0.05. The better one’s grammar mastery the better his or her writing ability. Therefore, those who want to improve their writing ability should learn grammar.
Keywords: correlation, descriptive writing ability, grammar mastery
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