A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR GRAMMAR MASTERY TOWARD THEIR ABILITY TO WRITE AN EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

FITRIA, ANANDA and Adzanil, Prima Septy and Lely, Refnita (2017) A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR GRAMMAR MASTERY TOWARD THEIR ABILITY TO WRITE AN EXPOSITORY PARAGRAPH OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to find out a correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their grammar mastery toward their ability to write an expository paragraph of the second year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University. The hypothesis of this research was that there was a positive significant correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their grammar mastery toward their ability to write an expository paragraph of the second year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University. The number of population was 29 students. The researcher used total sampling technique.The researcher gathered the data by using vocabulary test,grammar test and writing test. To analyze the data the researcher used the PearsonProductMoment Formula and Double Correlation Formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found thatthe value of coefficient correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their writing expository paragraph was .63, the value of coefficient correlation between students’ grammar mastery and their writing expository paragraph was .53, the value of coefficient of correlation between students’ vocabulary mastery and their grammar mastery toward their ability to write expository paragraph was .68 atα 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) n-k-1 (26). The result of hyphotheses testing showed that there was a significant correlation betwen students’ vocabulary mastery and their ability to write expository paragraph because the value of was bigger than the value of (.63>.831), there was a significant correlation betwen students’ grammar mastery and their ability to write expository paragraph because the value of was bigger than the value of (.53>.831) and there was a significant correlation between students’ mastery vocabulary and grammar toward their ability to write expository paragraphbecause the value of was bigger than the value of (11.56>3.37).Related to the finding, the researcher suggest the lecturers to improve students’ vocabulary and grammar in order to be able to write an expository paragraph. The researcher suggests the students to improve their vocabulary, grammar and do more practise to write an expository paragraph. The other researchers are suggested to find other factors that correlate with the ability to write an expository paragraph.

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