The correlation between reading rabit and ability in writing descriptive text at grade x students’ of sma n 6 Padangsidimpuan

Ritonga, Siswanti (2018) The correlation between reading rabit and ability in writing descriptive text at grade x students’ of sma n 6 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focussed on the correlation between reading habit and ability in writing descriptive text at grade X students’ of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan.There were some problems of the students in this research: 1) Ambiguous developed idea 2) In organizing the ideas to write a descriptive text. 3) The students find difficulties in using grammar. 4) Students have limited knowledge in using vocabulary. The purpose of this research was to know how significant the correlation reading habit and ability in writing descriptive text at grade X students’ of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan. The kind of this research was quantitative research with correlation method. The population of this research was the grade X students’ of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan which the total was 241 students. Then, the sample of this research was 71 students were gotten by Slovin formula and choosen randomly from 7 classes. The researcher used questionnaire to know students’ reading habit and test to know students’ ability in writing descriptive text on collecting the data. To analyze the data, the researcher used Product Moment formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of variable X was 70.38 and mean score of variable Y was 76.71. Besides, the score of rxy was higher than rtable (0.740>0.235). The result showed that there was correlation between two variables but in good category. It means the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was a correlation between reading habit and ability in writing descriptive text at grade X students of SMA N 6 Padangsidimpuan in good category.

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