A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON LEARNING STRATEGIES AND THEIR GRAMMATICAL MASTERY TOWARD THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH AT THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

JESSI, RINAWATI and Adzanil, Prima Septy and Khairul, Khairul (2016) A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON LEARNING STRATEGIES AND THEIR GRAMMATICAL MASTERY TOWARD THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH AT THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The type of this research was correlational study. This research was aimed to find out the correlation between students‟ perception on learning strategies and their grammatical mastery toward their ability in writing a descriptive paragraph at the third year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University. The number of population members was 54 students. To choose the sample, the researcher used simple random sampling technique, and the sample of this research was 30 students. The researcher used three instruments to collect the data; questionnaire, grammar test and writing test. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that students‟ perception on learning strategies was moderate, their grammartical mastery was moderate and their writing ability a descriptive paragraph was moderate. In addition, this study also found that the value of coefficient correlation between students‟ perception on learning strategies and their writing ability was 0.68 and r-table was 0.361 (α 0.05 and df = n-2 (28)). The coefficient correlation between students‟ grammatical mastery and their writing ability was 0.77 and r-table 0.361 (α 0.05 and df=n-2 (28)). The coefficient correlation between students‟ perception on learning strategies, grammatical mastery and writing ability was 0.79 and fcounted was 40.11 and value of f=table was 3.35 (α 0.05 and df= n-k-1 (27). The correlation among three variables, perception on learning strategies, grammatical mastery and writing ability were significant. The researcher proposed suggestions. Lecturers should give information about perception on learning strategies of English, give more exercises to the students and give more exercises on grammar and writing a descriptive paragraph. Next, the students are suggested to be more aware of the importances of Learning Strategies in learning English as Foreign Language, do more exercises on grammar and writing a descriptive paragraph. Key words: Correlation, Perception on Learning Strategies, Grammatical Mastery and Writing Ability

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