The correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing ability of The Fifth Semester Students English Departement IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Dorifa, Elmina (2022) The correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing ability of The Fifth Semester Students English Departement IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on the correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing ability in writing narrative text at the fifth semester students of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The students problem in this research were: 1) One of the difficulties is related to the vocabularies, 2) Most of students can not use vocabulary correctly, 3) Most of them still have lack of vocabularies and 4) Students are afraid of making mistake in writing English. This research had three formulation of the problem, they are how is the ability of the fifth semester students in mastering vocabulary, how is the ability of the students fourth semester in writing ability and is there any significant correlation between vocabulay mastery and writing ability in writing narrative text at the fifth semester students. The purpose of this research are to find out the students’ vocabulary mastery of the fifth semester, to find out the students’ writing ability of the fifth semester and to find out the significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing ability in writing narrative text at the fifth semester students of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The kind of this research was quantitative research with corretional method. 21 students were gotten by Slovin formula and choosen randomly from 3 classes as the sample. They were 10 students from TBI-1, 7 students from TBI-2 and 4 students from TBI-3. The researcher used lottery to take the sample. To anlyze the data, the researcher used Product Moment formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of variable X was 79.29 and mean score of variable Y was 77.88. Besides, the score of rxy was more than rtable 0.96> 0.456. The result showed that there was any significant correlation between two variables. It means the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and (Ho) was rejected. It was concluded that there was any significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing ability in writing narrative text at the fifth semester sudents of English Department IAIN Padangsidimpuan in very good category.

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