THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY MASTERY AND THEIR WRITING SKILL

Abstract

The research paper entitled “The Relationship between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and their Writing Skill”. The aims of the study are to know whether there is relationship between students’ vocabulary mastery and to know whether the relationship is high, positive, and significant at the second grade of SMP Tunas Baru Ciparay in academic year 2019/2020. The sample of the research falls into class A, having 37 students. To obtain the intended data, the writer give 20 items of vocabulary and ask the students to write a paragraph of greeting card, then the students get the score of those. In conducting the study, the writer uses the correlational design using Pearson’s r formula. The calculation showed that the score of r value is 0.705. Thus, the r value is between 0.600 – 0.800 and it is included into High category. It means that the strength of the relationship between students’ vocabulary mastery and their writing skill is “High”. The value of the t observed is 5.975, it is greater than the critical values of t= +2.042, at p = .05 with df = 35 (5.975>2.042). Therefore, the the Null Hypotheses (Ho) is rejected and the Alternative Hypotheses (Ha) is accepted. Based on the data above, the writer concludes that the relationship between students’ vocabulary mastery and their writing skill done at second grade of SMP Tunas Baru Ciparay in academic year 2019/2020 is high, significant and positive. It means that there is Relationship between Students’ Vocabulary Mastery and their Writing Skill.
Keywords: Vocabulary Mastery, Writing Skill, Correlational Research