A Correlation Between Students’ Grammar Mastery And Their Practice Intensity Towards Their Writing Ability

SuciVeniza, Saidina and Adzanil, Prima Septy and Khairul, Harha (2015) A Correlation Between Students’ Grammar Mastery And Their Practice Intensity Towards Their Writing Ability. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The objective of this research is to identify whether or not there is a significant correlation between students’ grammar mastery and their practice intensity towards their writing ability. This study was particularly aimed to: 1) Identifystudents’ grammar mastery, 2) Identify students’ practice intensity about grammar, 3) Identify students’ writing ability in descriptive paragraph, and 4) To correlate if there is a significant correlation between students’ grammar mastery and their practice intensity towards their writing ability in descriptive paragraph. The design of this research was correlational. Population of this research was 88 students of second year of English Department of Bung Hatta University Padang, and the number of sample was 30 students. In selecting the sample, cluster random sampling technique was applied.The data were collected through grammar test, questionnaire and writing test. The grammar test was used to identify the students’ grammar mastery, questionnaire was used to identify their practice intensity about grammar, and to identify their writing ability in descriptive paragraph the researcher used writing test. The result of analyzing data indicated that: the students’ grammar mastery was moderate (60%), as the level indicated 23.33%, and the low level indicated 16.67%. Their practice intensity in grammarwas found 63% in high level and 37% in low level. Their writing ability to write the descriptive paragraph was identified 13% in high level, 26% in moderate level and 74% in low level. The result of hypothesis testing found that there is a correlation between students’ ability in grammar mastery and writing ability. This indicated was moderate correlation (0.48) and the correlation between students’ practice intensity and their writing ability in descriptive paragraph was very low correlation as indicated 0.16. Finally, this study can be concluded that the correlation between students’ grammar mastery and their practice intensity towards their writing ability was moderate correlation as indicated (0.55). Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the result of correlational analysis found that there is a positive correlation between students’ grammar mastery and their practice intensity towards their writing ability. Relating to this conclusion, it is suggested to the lecturers to have intensive practices in grammar mastery for the students in order to have a good ability in writing a descriptive paragraph. It is also suggested the students to comprehend grammar and do more practices, so they are capable to write descriptive paragraph. Key Words : Grammar Mastery, Practice Intensity and Writing Ability.

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