The Correlation between the Mastery of Noun Phrase and the Writing Ability of Descriptive Text of the Tenth Grade Students of MAN 2 Kudus in the Academic Year 2011/2012
| Main Author: | Rohman, Miftakhul |
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| Format: | Bachelors NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
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, 2012
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Daftar Isi:
- As a language, English has phonology, vocabulary, and grammar as components. Grammar has an important role in arranging the vocabularies to be a good phrase, clause, sentence and paragraph. For the non-native speaker, English grammar is seen as the most difficult component to be learnt by the English learners. Phrase is one of many grammar rules that English learners should master. Noun phrase is the most familiar one. It can be found in all kinds of text, moreover in descriptive text. In writing descriptive text, the writer will highly need this phrase to give more detail information of the thing which is described so that the reader can catch the description of the thing completely. This study is aimed to find out the correlation between the mastery of noun phrase and the writing ability of descriptive text of the tenth grade students of MAN 2 Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012. To be able to find the correlation between the mastery of noun phrase and the writing ability of descriptive text, the writer conducts a correlational research which is in area of quantitative. The number of sample is 40 students which is taken randomly from regular class. Test is used as the instrument of this research. There are two test forms to gather data; multiple choice test to get the data of students’ noun phrase mastery and essay test to get the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text. The result of the research shows that the mean for the mastery of noun phrase is 62.72, and the standard deviation 11.83. From the data of mean, it can be categorized average. Then, the mean for writing ability of descriptive text is 62.5, and the standard deviation 6.96. From the data of mean, it is also categorized average. From those data, 0.456 is gotten for the coefficient rxy. Because of the coefficient rxy is not equal with 0, the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is confirmed. Therefore, there is a significant correlation between the mastery of noun phrase and the writing ability of descriptive text of the tenth grade students of MAN 2 Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012. Due to the result of the research, the students should study more about the noun phrase specifically and grammar generally. They should also study text types completely include their generic structures and lexicogrammatical features. Then, teacher as facilitator should be able to facilitate the need of the students in any material moreover in grammar.