FARADILA ANGGIE FAJRI, 2201404555

THE CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS READING HABIT AND THEIR WRITING ABILITY IN NARRATIVE TEXT (A Case Study of the Eighth Grade Sudents of SMP Negeri 21 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2008/ 2009)

Identitas Mahasiswa - NAMA : FARADILA ANGGIE FAJRI - NIM : 2201404555 - PRODI : Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris - JURUSAN : BAHASA & SASTRA INGGRIS - FAKULTAS : Bahasa dan Seni - EMAIL : swity_angie pada domain plasa.com - PEMBIMBING 1 : Dra. Rahayu Puji Haryanti, M.Hum. - PEMBIMBING 2 : Widhiyanto, S.Pd., M.Pd. - TGL UJIAN : 2009-02-23

JudulTHE CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS READING HABIT AND THEIR WRITING ABILITY IN NARRATIVE TEXT (A Case Study of the Eighth Grade Sudents of SMP Negeri 21 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2008/ 2009)

AbstrakThis is a study about “The Correlation Study Between Students’ Reading Habitand Their Writing Ability in Narrative Text (A Case of the Eighth Students ofSMP Negeri 21 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2008/ 2009)”.The aims of the study were:(1) to describe the reading habit of the eighthgrade students of SMP Negeri 21 Semarang in the academic year of 2008/ 2009;(2) to describe the writing ability in narrative text of the eighth grade students ofSMP Negeri 21 Semarang in the academic year of 2008/ 2009; (3) to find outwhether or not there is significant correlation between students reading habit andtheir writing ability in narrative text. The findings of this research were: (1) maybe useful as information to the teachers to be creative in teaching learning process,especially in teaching reading and writing narrative; (2) may be useful for thestudents to develop their writing ability, especially in narrative text by doingmuch practice; (3) the procedures and outcomes of this research hopefully willinspire interested other researchers to conduct studies with similar themes. Thisresearch was held on December, 1st and 5th, 2008. The sample was 75 students ofclass 8C and 8E of SMP Negeri 21 Semarang. In collecting the data the writerused questionnaires to asses the students’ reading habit and writing narrative textto asses the students’ writing ability. The group level of students’ reading habitwas 74.67%, so almost all of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 21Semarang, especially 8C and 8E students had a good enthusiasm in reading.While the group level of students’ writing ability of the eighth grade students ofSMP Negeri 21 Semarang in narrative text was 54.66%. Thus, almost half of thestudents are able to make narrative text, although some of them still make a fewmistakes. And the rest of them still lack of ability in writing, especially in thecomponents of grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and content. After the writer gotthe result of computation; the writer compared it with r table value. The ProductMoment Correlation result was 0.520 and r test table in the level of significance95% in n = 75 were 0.227. So, the Product Moment Correlation result > r table is(0.520 > 0.227). The hypothesis which stated that there was a correlation betweenstudents’ reading habit and their writing ability in narrative text of the eighthgrade students of SMP Negeri 21 Semarang in the academic year of 2008/ 2009was accepted.

Kata KunciReading, Writing, narrative text.

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