Jurnal English Education: Jurnal Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Vol 9 No 1 (2016): English Education: Jurnal Tadris Bahasa Inggris

The Correlation Between the Students’ Writing Motivation and the Writing Ability

Aryanika, Septa (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Mar 2016

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to know the level of the students’ writing motivation, to know the level of the students’ writing ability, and to know whether there is any positive and significant correlation between the students’ writing motivation and the writing ability among the eleventh grade students of Senior High School Utama Wacana Metro in the academic year of 2009/2010.This research was conducted at the eleventh students of Senior High School Utama Wacana Metro. The population of this research consist of 136 students. And the sample consists of 52 students. It is established through the simple random sampling technique. The instruments used in this research are questionnaire and test. The writer used questionnaire to know the levels the students’ writing motivation. Furthermore, to know the level of the writing ability, the writer used writing test. To analyze the data, the writer used product moment correlation. The result of data analysis is “r observed” = 0, 506 higher than “r table” = 0, 273.  Based on the result of analysis data above, it can be inferred that Ha is accepted. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ENGEDU

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

English Education: Jurnal Tadris Bahasa Inggris has been published since March 2010 in printed version (pISSN: 2086-6003), June and December 2018 in online version (eISSN: 2580-1449). It is a biannual journal concerning English Language Teaching, English Literature, English Linguistics, Current ...