STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF KHAIRUN UNIVERSITY

STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF KHAIRUN UNIVERSITY

Edisi September 2019 CAKRAWALA BAHASA FKIP UNKHAIR   07.50

STUDENTS’ WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM OF KHAIRUN UNIVERSITY

 Ali Ajam & Vita Fahrudin

English Language Education Study Program Khairun University

vita.fahrudin@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The objectives of this research is to find out the students’ in Writing descriptive text  at the sixth semester students of English Language Education Study Program of Khairun University. The researcher applied qualitative research design with descriptive method. It involved 20 respondents of sixth semester. From students writng of descriptive text.the researcher focus on fifth aspect to know the students writing descriptive text that are content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. The data from 20 respondents show that 10 or 50% be able to write complete based on the topics and describe tourism spot correctly. While the other of them about 10 or 50% of the respondent has average result in writing descriptive text.

Key words: Descriptive text, content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics.

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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND SPEAKING ABILITY

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND SPEAKING ABILITY

Edisi Mei 2019 CAKRAWALA BAHASA FKIP UNKHAIR   19.14

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND SPEAKING ABILITY AT ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

OF KHAIRUN UNIVERSITY

Saiful Latif & Ainun Jajilah

Lecturer of English Language Education Study Program
Student of English Language Education Study Program

E-mail Ainunjajilah@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The objective of this research is to know there is any correlation between vocabulary mastery and speaking ability at class A 4^th semester students of English Education  Study Program of Khairun University consist of 11 students. Convinient sampling is used in this research. This research used correlation design with quantitative approach. The data were collected by using two kinds, vocabulary test and documentation (final speaking score) of public speaking subject were involved. The Pearson Product Moment Correlation formula IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Study) version 19 was used to analyze the data. The data analysis shows there is a positive correlation between vocabulary mastery and speaking ability. The r_xy distribution of the coefficient correlation is 0.562. It means that the correlation was in fair level. H₁ (alternative hypothesis) of this research is accepted and null hypothesis (H₀) is rejected.  There was no much different between the students’ vocabulary score and student’ speaking score. In other words, it can be concluded that students who are good in vocabulary will also tend to be good in speaking.

Keywords: correlation, vocabulary mastery, speaking ability

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