CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRPIVE TEXT AND THEIR VOCABULARY MASTERY

http://doi.org/10.22216/jcc.2020.v5i1.1539


Wahyuni Syartika(1), suharni suharni(2*), Hevriani Sevrika(3)

(1) STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat
(2) STKIP PGRI SUMATERA BARAT
(3) STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


This study was aimed at knowing the correlation between students’ writing ability in descriptive text and their vocabulary mastery. The population of this study was the third semester students of English Department STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat consisting of 96 students. In determining the sample, the writer used cluster random sampling technique. Based on the result of normality and homogeneity test, one class (Session D) was chosen as sample of this study consisting of 10 students. Instrument used in this study were documents of students’ writing and vocabulary test which were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Formula. The result showed that correlation value between students’ writing ability in descriptive text and their vocabulary mastery was low correlation (rxy=0.26). Furthermore, the writer got tcount=0.7708 which was higher than ttable=0.6319, degree of freedom (df)=8, and level of significant 5%. It can be concluded that the hypothesis of this research was accepted. It means that there were positive correlation between students’ writing ability in descriptive text and their vocabulary mastery.


Keywords


effect, Contextual Teaching and Learning Strategy, students’ writing

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