THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SENTENCE STRUCTURE MASTERY AND ESSAY WRITING ABILITY OF THE SEVENTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM AT SRIWIJAYA UNIVERSITY
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- The objectives of this study were to find out: (1) the extent to which the seventh semester students of English Education Study Program at Sriwijaya University used a variety of sentence structures, (2) whether or not there was a significant correlation between sentence structures mastery and essay writing ability of the seventh semester students of English Education Study Program at Sriwijaya University. (3) whether or not there is any contribution of sentence structures mastery to writing ability of the seventh semester students of English Education Study Program at Sriwijaya University. The sample of this study was 70 students of the seventh semester of English Education Study Program of Sriwijaya University chosen by using purposive sampling technique. The data were collected by using sentence structures test and essay writing test. The data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Simple Linear Regression in SPSS version 24. The results showed that: (1) The students’ most mastery of sentence structures was simple sentences, followed by compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex sentences, (2) there was a weak correlation between sentence structures mastery and essay writing ability as -value (0.013) was lower than 0.05, (3) the contribution of sentence structures mastery to essay writing ability of the seventh semester students of English Education Study Program at Sriwijaya University was 8.7%.