The Relationship Between Students Grammar Mastery and Their Recount Writing Skill at The Eighth Grade Students on MTs N 4 Jakarta in 2011 - 2012 Academic Year

andriani prismawati; drs sigit sumarsono, m.pd;

The objective of this research is to find out the relationship between students’ grammar mastery and their recount writing skill at the eighth grade students of MTs N 4 Jakarta. The writer used a survey involving a correlation analysis. The respondent populations were the students at the eighth grade of that consists of two classes. The
writer took one cluster class as a respondent because it has represented the students’ skill from the low until high skill and it consists of 30 students. The result of the research shows that ro of the correlation between grammar mastery and recount writing skill is 0.792 and rt of the table of Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation in the level of significance 0.05 with df = n-2 = 28 is 0.361 . The
calculation showed that the ro is higher than rt = 0.792 > 0.361. It means that there is a relationship between students’ grammar mastery and their rrecount writing skill at the eighth grade students of MTs N 4 Jakarta. The result of this research is expected to be helpful for the students especially, for the English teacher, to help them in designing the next program for the students. Thus, the students’ mastery in grammar and recount writing score can be improved.
The writer also hopes the research can be useful for the other readers.