The correlation between vocabulary and writing descriptive text mastery at the grade VIII Students of MTs Al-Ansor Padangsidimpuan in academic years 2019/2020

Siregar, Mardiana (2020) The correlation between vocabulary and writing descriptive text mastery at the grade VIII Students of MTs Al-Ansor Padangsidimpuan in academic years 2019/2020. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused about the correlation between vocabulary and writing descriptive text mastery at the grade VIII students of MTs Al-ansor Padangsidimpuan. some of the students get difficulties in expressing their ideas, they don‟t know the structure in sentences, they still have poor vocabularies and grammar, and most of the students did not like English lesson because its difficult for them. This research has three formulation of the problem, they are: 1) how is the students, vocabulary of the VIII grade students of MTs Al-ansor Padangsidimpuan?. 2) how is the students, writing descriptive text of the VIII grade students of MTs Al-ansor Padangsidimpuan?. 3) is there a significant correlation between vocabulary and writing descriptive text mastery of the grade VIII students of MTs Al-ansor Padangsidimpuan?, the purposes of this research are to know the students‟ vocabulary of the eight grade students of MTs Al-Ansor Padangsidimpuan, to know the students‟ writing descriptive text mastery of the eight grade students of Mts Al-Ansor Padangsidmpuan, to find out if there is a significant correlation between students‟ vocabulary and writing descriptive text mastery of the eight grade students of MTs Al-Ansor Padangsidimpuan. The type of research in this study is study quantitative. The population of this research was the grade VIII students of MTs Al-ansor Padangsidimpuan in academic years 2019/2020. Further, the sample of the research included 24 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used two tests they are vocabulary test with the form multiple choice and test of writing descriptive text with the form essay test. To know the correlation both of them used product moment correlation After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of vocabulary was 73.12 and mean score of writing descriptive text 71.41. The value of rxy = 0.898 and rtable = 0.423 with the significat value 5%. The tcount was 10.27 with ttable = 2.074 or tcount > ttable. It meant there is a significant correlation between vocabulary and writing descriptive text mastery of the grade VIII students of MTs Al-ansor Padangsidimpuan.

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