THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS' SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT AND THEIR WRITING ABILITY IN RECOUNT TEXT

Laily Isti'anah

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Abstract: This study is aimed to discover whether there is a correlation between students’ mastery of subject-verb agreement and their writing ability in recount text. The sample of the study was 34 students of X MIPA 4 which was randomly selected from the tenth-grade students of SMAN 1 Manyar. This research used a quantitative correlational research design. There were two tests used in collecting the data for the research. The first test was subject-verb agreement mastery test that consisted of 30 items divided into 20 multiple choice and 10 fill in the blank. The second test was recount text writing test about historical event happened in the past. The finding of the research revealed that that the correlation coefficient was 0.370, and Sig. value (2-tailed) was 0.031 was lower than level of significance 0.05. It can be inferred that there is a correlation in a weak level between students’ mastery of subject-verb agreement and their writing ability in recount text. It revealed that subject-verb agreement had less influence in students’ recount text writing ability.

Key words: Correlation, subject-verb agreement mastery, writing ability, recount text


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