EFL STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR MASTERY AND WRITING SKILL: A CORRELATIONAL STUDY

Eqvan Sandy Syah Aqsani

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Abstract : The purpose of this study is to determine students' grammar and writing ability levels, as well as the relationship between grammar mastery and writing proficiency. The participants of this research were 4th semester students of English department of UNISMA. The instrument used in this study was students’ score documentation that were got from the administration office of English Department. The data were analyzed by calculating the mean scores and the r-value of Pearson correlation coefficient on SPSS 20. The study uncovers the mean score of the students' grammar was 74.37 which means that students experienced a good level of grammar.  The second mean score was the writing score which was 75.27 which is classified as good level. For the most frequent score of the students’ grammar was 72.1%, meanwhile the writing score was 64.6%. but on the other hand, there were students who were in very poor level of grammar and writing in which the grammar was in 1.3 % and the writing was in 2.5 %. The correlation between the students' grammar and their writing achievement is represented by the result showed r (79) = .253 with p-value 0.01 < 0.025 < 0.05 which means that there is correlation between students’ grammar mastery and writing skill and that the correlation between the two variable is significant, but the strength of the correlation was positively weak. It can be concluded that grammar mastery is not the main factor that can assist students’ writing skill.

Keywords : Grammar mastery, Writing Achievement, Correlation


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