THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR MASTERY AND THEIR WRITING ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION ACHIEVEMENT
Abstract
The purpose of this research were to find out the correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and students’ writing anaytical exposition text ability. Students’ simple present tense mastery significantly influence analytical exposition writing achievement. This research used a quantitative method. The researcher used two test to collect the data, namely grammar test and writing test. The mean score of the grammar test was 47,5 which classified “very poor” level. On the other hand, the mean score of the writing ability was 54,38 which classified “poor” level. From the calculation by using the Pearson product moment formula, it was found out the rxy 0,804. The results indicated that there was positive correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and their ability in writing analytical exposition text. Beside that, the result of simple regression analysis of the variables, it was found that the students’ simple present tense mastery gave significant effect in the level of 64,7% toward analytical exposition writing achievement and 35,3% was unexplained another factors. Based on this research, it was suggested that to have a good ability in writing analytical exposition text, students should have a good mastery of simple present tense.
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