Abstract:
The objective of this study is aimed to describe The Correlation between
Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Their Ability on Writing Descriptive Text at
the Seventh Grade Students of MTs Maarif Kepil Wonosobo in the Academic
Year of 2015/2016. It is aimed at finding out whether there is significant
relationship or not between students’ vocabulary mastery and their ability on
writing descriptive text .
This research belongs to quantitative research with a correlative research. In
this research, the population is the seventh grade students of MTs Maarif Kepil
Wonosobo with the total number of population is 150 students. The sample of this
research is 30 students. The researcher takes the sample by using simple random
sampling because of the population have a similar chance to be chosen as a
sample. The researcher uses test to get the data of vocabulary mastery and ability
on writing descriptive text. The techniques of analyzing data are descriptive
statistics and inferential analysis using SPSS 16.0. The researcher analyzes using
descriptive statistics to find mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation and
variance, whereas inferential analysis is used to prove the hypothesis test in the
significance level 0.05.
The result of the analysis data shows that the coefficient correlation ( xyr ) is
0.713. It indicates that there is a high relationship between the students’
vocabulary mastery and their ability on writing descriptive text. It is included the
scale of interpretation score between 0.600-0.800. With degree of significance
5%, the score of table ( table r ) obtained is 0.361, therefore, xyr > table r (0.713 >
0.361). Based on the result of this research, it can be stated that the hypothesis
alternative “The Correlation between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and Their
Ability on Writing Descriptive Text at the Seventh Grade Students of MTs Maarif
Kepil Wonosobo in the Academic Year of 2015/2016.” is accepted.
