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

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.